a natural colour palette
Morning is due to all –
To some – the Night –
To an imperial few –
The Auroral Light –
Il Mattino spetta a tutti –
Ad alcuni – la Notte –
A un’imperiale esiguità –
La Luce dell’Aurora –
Morning is due to all — Emily Dickinson, 1577
Sunrise view at the International Space Station
Image Credit: NASA
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Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845 – 1920)
Chromotaxia seu Nomenclator colorum polyglottus
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Survey on Peziza setosa
Pier Andrea Saccardo, XIX – XX sec
From Pier Andrea Saccardo’s personal herbarium: tag with autographed drawings associated with a mushroom sample.
Image credit Università di Padova – Museo Botanico / phaidra.cab.unipd.it / ortobotanicopd.it
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Quasi1litrodacqua
Emanuela Rizzo, 2016
Glycerine, offset print on tracing paper and plastic.
© Copyright Emanuela Rizzo
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Il mio segno era rimasto chissà dove, indietro, completamente fuori mano rispetto all’orbita di rivoluzione del nostro sistema. Non avevo fatto i conti con le oscillazioni cui, specie a quei tempi, erano soggette le forze di gravità dei corpi celesti e che li portavano a disegnare orbite irregolari e frastagliate come fiori di dahlia.
My sign had perhaps remained who knows where, behind, completely remote from the revolutionary orbit of our system. I hadn’t calculated the oscillations to which, especially in those days, the celestial bodies’ fields of gravity were subject, and which caused them to trace irregular orbits, cut like the flower of a dahlia.
Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics, 1965
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