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Reading these two books in parallel has been a profound coincidence. Coccia approaches life from both philosophical and scientific perspectives, but also turns everything around, to provoke our contemporary concerns about nature. Shea brings up the ethical and spiritual aspects of dying, whose awareness can make living more meaningful.

#stacibushea #emanuelecoccia #sternbergpress #metamorphoses #metalorphosis #dyinglivingly

Scene from my #surreal #shortfilm "#Metamorphoses". The version below was #animated by hand, while my short film was fully animated using #AIassistance based on my picture series (also AI assisted). It was bringing pictures in my head finally into #fullmotion. Some scenes are based on own #diving experiences, others were inspired by movie "The big Blue". Please watch my #YouTubevideo. #Story #art

Film by S.F.Wirth (2025)
https://youtu.be/1aPydmlzOSk?si=czfFlTmMPptWMUy8

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© S.F. Wirth 2025

🎨✨ Exposition "Métamorphose(s)" à la médiathèque Pablo-Neruda du 5 au 29 juin 2025 ! 📚🖌️ Découvrez une fresque collective créée par 6 classes et 4 autrices-illustratrices talentueuses : Muriel Bloch, Julia Chausson, Emmanuelle Houdart Officiel et Aurélia Fronty. Thème : métamorphose humaine, animale, individuelle ou collective. Entrée libre ! #Exposition #ArtCollaboratif #Métamorphoses #Culture #Malakoff 📍Médiathèque Pablo-Neruda

The prologue from _Metamorphoses_ by Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum:

> My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world’s beginning to our day.

I think it's a fantastic trans mantra.

#poetry #classics #ovid #Trans #metamorphoses

"Metamorphoses" (1941; gouache, sand, pastel on canvas); by André Masson. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia [USA]. 20190903
#USA #Virginia #Richmond #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #Metamorphoses #AndreMasson

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Trænger til at være mere skærmfri... Er ude hele dagen og arbejde og så når jeg skal sove sidder jeg bare og scroller og nu postee jeg ting det er ret nedtur, #metamorphoses #on screen nighttime #prunus time #viol times

J'ai reçu par courrier aujourd'hui le dernier numéro de la revue alters média qui enquête sur la démocratie réelle. Le chaos et la furtivité, on en parle ?
#démocratie #chaos #furtivité #métamorphoses 🦋

Cutting ham again with Daniel this time #nature #slow #metamorphoses #pig

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 -

Who are the poets I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://buff.ly/3DBla47

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #poetry #jennyxie #eyelevel #mosababutoha #forestofnoise #metamorphoses #ovid #derekwalcott #omeros #mohammedelkurd #rifqa #yevgenyyevtushenko

Durant deux années en 2010 et 2011, Charles Fréger a sillonné l’Europe du nord au sud, de la Finlande au Portugal en passant par la Roumanie, l’Allemagne ou la Slovénie, à la recherche de la figure du sauvage telle qu’elle survit dans les traditions populaires locales.

#^https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=fqSKjBAXsNw

Ces images comme des archétypes, mi-homme mi-bête, animal ou végétal, resurgissent du fond des temps à l’occasion de fêtes rituelles, païennes ou religieuses, célébrant le cycle des saisons, les jours gras, carnaval ou la veille de Pâques. Dans le fonds commun des sociétés rurales européennes, ces personnages ou animaux emblématiques représentaient des figures protectrices ou des symboles de fertilité. Aujourd’hui ils évoquent un monde imaginaire, pulsionnel et physique où chacun perçoit un rapport ancestral à la nature où affleurent les ressorts de notre animalité et parfois le désir régressif inhérent à certaines de nos conduites. Charles Fréger parle « d’une figure zoomorphe dont l’aspect rudimentaire et la tenue rituelle renvoient à une universelle nudité ». (...)

source : https://www.charlesfreger.com/fr/portfolio/wilder-mann/
#vivant #vivant-non-humain #metamorphoses #entrelesmondes

The 20 Book Challenge:
Twenty books that have had an impact on who I am – one book cover a day over 20 (non-consecutive) days.

No explanations, no reviews: just the book cover with alt text.

Day Thirteen:
(13) "Metamorphoses" by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 8 CE

#20Books #20Books20Days
#Books #Bookstodon
#Metamorphoses

Cover of the 2013 Everyman's edition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", translated by Allen Mandelbaum in 1993.

The background is a cropped image of the head and shoulders of Ovid from Luca Signorelli's 1504 fresco in Cappella di San Brizio in the Cathedral of Orvieto. Ovid is portrayed facing towards our left, a laurel wreath on his head, and wearing a yellow, wool-lined coat buttoned at his chest. The image is covered with a grid of fine bronze-coloured dots.

The author's name in the upper quarter of the cover, is in white sans-serif capitals in a red rectangle that includes a white decorated border. The title, in serif capitals, is across the middle of the cover. In the bottom quarter, "Translated by Allen Mandelbaum" is in white sans serif capitals inside a small rectangle the same bronze colour as the dots in the grid, and below that, in white serif capitals, in the publisher, Everyman's Library.

If you're interested in #art I suggest tuning in for the online premiere of the #film I made with fellow #Orkney #artist Vernon Bradley next Friday, Dimittit In Artes. It's about his work, mortality, and the artistic struggle in general. It's a sincere piece but not entirely serious.

We'll be live streaming it together on YouTube but it won't be made available after the fact, so don't miss it! Link below.

https://www.youtube.com/live/KwvDyvN52PY?si=29lyjV5XY5klccoT

#mastoart #FilmMastodon #painting #Ovid #metamorphoses

Dimittit In Artes: Arty Farty Watch Party! Vernon Bradley and Martin Laird acting like fools at their meatspace film premiere in Stromness, superimposed on top of one of Vernon's paintings. Join them for the online live stream premiere on YouTube on Friday 28th at 8.30pm BST.

Eamonn Keyes has done a good write-up of the #film I've made with fellow #orkney #artist Vernon Bradley, Dimittit In Artes.

I could write a whole dissertation on the subtext in this film but Eamonn has picked up on the key themes. #mortality vs #immortality being a big one.

#mastoart #independentfilm #ovid #metamorphoses

https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/06/10/film-review-dimittit-in-artes/

Vernon Bradley: Dimittit In Artes is premiering at #Stromness Community Centre in #Orkney tomorrow at 7.30. Tickets £5 on the door. Not suitable for children.

Vernon Bradley thinks this #film is about him, but for me it's about #Ovid.

#mastoart #metamorphoses

Monochrome still frame from Dimittit In Artes with a man in a skull mask and beret sitting in a dark wet shed surrounded by flames.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Would love to see this.
Hopefully they’ll release a video version 🙏

#Metamorphoses — up close and personal with mythology

With #AlinaCojocaru among the cast, the choreographer is staging a classical double bill at the #TheatreRoyal, Bath

“Nymphs, shepherds and passing deities have been food for narrative ballet since the 17th century. But for #KimBrandstrup, classical #mythology is more of a touchstone than a template, supplying the starting point for complex and mysterious relationships”

#GiftLink See #Alt’s #alttext
https://on.ft.com/49oTJoP

Text Shot: Metamorphoses is a short but supersaturated double bill of works inspired by the Minotaur myth and the story of Cupid and Psyche. Both pieces were commissioned by Deborah Warner as part of her two-year stint as artistic director of Bath’s tiny 126-seat Ustinov Studio. Brandstrup is untroubled by the limited performance space: “I find the proximity strangely liberating,” said the Danish choreographer and filmmaker when I spoke to him last month. He likened the short sightlines to the intimacy of the camera: “ . . . their faces, their hands, the sense of touch. In an opera house you’ve got to reach the top of the gallery but in this room you are so close that you need much less performative power and it’s that closeness that I’m interested in.”

Tommy Franzen and Kristen Mcnally in ‘Minotaur’ © Foteini Christofilopoulou

In the original Cupid and Psyche myth, Venus, jealous of the nymph’s beauty, instructs Cupid to seduce her in total darkness. Brandstrup subverts the usual dynamic so that it is Cupid the man-child who is reluctant to see or be seen, unwilling to commit to a completely open relationship.

When we first see the brooding Ball he is lit chiaroscuro, like a lost Caravaggio. In the first exploratory exchange he teases his Psyche, blowing in her ear or paddling his fingers and toes in a stray shaft of light. The duets gain pace and soon the tiny Cojocaru is flying through the darkness in a succession of thrilling overhead lifts to a beguiling playlist of Bach, Arvo Pärt and others.

Metamorphoses (2021) [9 min] by Aitolkyn Almenova | #Kazakhstan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61i2fPQJ3bU
(English subtitle available)

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Metamorphoses #Difference #Autism #Interaction #ShabytUniversityOfTheArts

The wonderful Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was born #OnThisDay in 1739

This is the fifth of his Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses, "The Lycian Peasants Changed into Frogs."

Bohumil Gregor conducts the Prague Chamber Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jC_V8j3YQY

@classicalmusic #Dittersdorf #Ovid #Metamorphoses

A nice #review of the #book by Stephanie McCarter that is a new #translation of #Metamorphoses by #Ovid:

"Should Ovid's Metamorphoses Have A Trigger Warning?" [2022], The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/14/should-ovids-metamorphoses-have-a-trigger-warning).

#BookReview #Rome #RomanEmpire #Verse #Poetry #Epic #Classic #Latin

A few lines by an old Roman (originally), relevant for the day. When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time inside this long poem by Ovid. On the blog is a short excerpt from the version I lived with.

https://edevere17.com/2023/03/15/caesar-shall-forth/

#IdesofMarch #Ovid #Poetry #Metamorphoses #Histodons #OTD #Oxfordian #ShakespeareAuthorship #VeroNihilVerius

Still image from 'Julius Caesar', Royal Shakespeare Company, 2017, directed by Angus Jackson

"For as his own bright image he survey'd,
He fell in love with the fantastick shade;
And o'er the fair resemblance hung unmov'd,
Nor knew, fond youth! it was himself he lov'd."
#Narcissus #socialmedia #instagram #Ovid #Metamorphoses #edchat #engchat #myth #classics #poetry

#metamorphoses

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