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Black is the bottomless
The fog I cannot lift but I can pierce with sharp awareness.
This is the night I cannot end,
yet I can find a new
beginning in another place another day.

Norman Sickel, Poet
excerpted from Black-
Tone Poems of Color

Jaguar E-Type

nicoonmars:

RYAN WALLACE

Stamens and pistils

(via earlgrayscale)

blue-voids:

Adrian Lockhart - Lying Nude, 2011

afterthenight:

Rothko Chapel, 1964-1967

The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas founded by John and Dominique de Menil and opened in 1971. The interior serves not only as a chapel, but also as a major work of modern art. On its walls are fourteen black but color hued paintings by Mark Rothko. The shape of the building, an octagon inscribed in a Greek cross, and the design of the chapel was largely influenced by the artist.Susan J. Barnes states “The Rothko Chapel…became the world’s first broadly ecumenical center, a holy place open to all religions and belonging to none. It became a center for international cultural, religious, and philosophical exchanges, for colloquia and performances. And it became a place of private prayer for individuals of all faiths”. Fourteen of Rothko’s paintings are displayed in the chapel. Three walls display triptychs, while the other five walls display single paintings. Beginning in 1964, Rothko began painting a series of black paintings, which incorporated other dark hues and texture effects. A typical question raised by visitors viewing the massive black canvases which adorn the walls of the chapel includes some variant of: “Where are the paintings?” The hue of the paintings vary on the lightning of the moment of the day.

nyjahatuatao:

DotsToLines

kiameku:

Ryan Gander PURE OXIDISED SILVER ON PAPER 2008 framed photograph
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An 8” x 10” photographic print showing a close up of the worlds ‘blackest paint’, produced by a team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Britain. Developed for use in the space exploration industry, the ‘blackness’ consists of a coating that will be used on the interior of the Hubble Space Telescope to improve its vision and is produced by a very lengthy chain of chemical processes, involving nickel sulphate and sodium hypophosphite. This produces a phosphorus coating. Then the surface is etched with nitric acid to produce the super- black surface structure. A 5cm square coverage averages out at about five hundred British Pounds.