Oceanic figure, date unknown
Mixtec mask: turquoise mosaic, c. 1600 C.E. Seen at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
"Interruptions are disasters."
— Agnes Martin
Moomin, and the unknown.
bowl, Egypt, c. 3900-3650 B.C.E.
It’s hard not to read into these.
Found this rather amusing photo of Patricia Highsmith at her typewriter and wondered about the circumstances in which it was taken. Writing and being photographed are entirely incompatible activities, yet I have seen other pictures of well groomed authors busily typing (or posing with pen), always black and white; wonder if anyone today photographs authors feigning work on laptop?
