Tag: art
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Roses and pinks
It is rose season here in the mill garden, and I have the colour of roses on my mind. Because it is so loved, and because it has been so widely cultivated for such a very long time, perhaps no flower has the ability to soak up cultural meaning quite as much as the rose.…
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helle-bore-us
Warning: this missive contains more helle-boring content! After learning about hellebores and their nectaries I was left wondering at what point, in the history of science, the crucial role these structures played in pollination had been understood. How had early botanists looked at hellebores? How had hellebores been represented in botanical art and illustration? Some…
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sunday links
a documentary, an exhibition, an EP, and 49,000 pairs of early nineteenth-century stockings
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Colour at Work
a challenging, inspiring, thought-provoking and truly in-the-round celebration of that most unruly of creative concepts – COLOUR
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