Culture
The Scream of Media
Posted by Philip Burchill onHere I describe an innovation I created of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' in my updated version called 'The Scream of Media'. Edvard Munch's the Scream is the inspiration for the scream emoji and it famously depicts the dread of social isolation which has even greater relevance for our own time....
Perseus & A.I. Medusa
Posted by Philip Burchill on'The human spirit must prevail over technology.' - Albert Einstein In this image of Perseus holding up the severed head of medusa I have sought to show the connection of this ancient Greek myth in it's relevance to our time in relating to technology. By starring at Medusa one would...
Thoughts on Friendship: Loss and Value
Posted by Philip Burchill on“I thought to lose my own life and instead I have lost half my existence with him." – Goethe All who have lost a friend understand the weight of feeling expressed in these words by Germany’s literary genius Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe over 200 years ago after he lost his...
Alexander Mcqueen Symbolic Portrait
Posted by Philip Burchill onArt & reflections on fashion designer Alexander Mcqueen
VOYAGE TO/OR FROM JAPAN
Posted by Philip Burchill onVOYAGE TO/OR FROM JAPAN: ‘‘…deep mirrors and screens reflected scenes, the splendour and arts of the East, would all whisper their spell to the rapturous soul in the soft tongue she spoke first.’- Charles Baudelaire Originally inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Portrait of Pere Tanguy’, a wealthy merchant who...
Omneity Icon
Posted by Daniel Unterkofler onOmneity- is a philosophical term understood as everythingness, allness or totality. It is an analogous description of creation reflecting the image of its Creator. It is not God, it is the universe. God is the teleological and centripetal force. Everything is attracted to the true center, moving collectively and being...
Chaos & Order
Posted by ANDRE NIEMEYER onThe name of this shirt is Chaos and Cosmology, it displays and juxtaposes two aesthetic styles that possess a depth of philosophical meaning. Chaos and Cosmology are understood simply as disorder and order. The dynamics of these two phenomena are articulated in different symbols of the eastern culture such as...
Chaosmos
Posted by ANDRE NIEMEYER on‘In all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order…’ ‘…we are caught and entangled in aimless experience.. It is a moment of collapse…Only when all the crutches and props are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it...
Constellations Skull
Posted by Philip Burchill on“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination”. - Ludwig Wittgenstein The inspiration for this shirt came from this quote above by Ludwig Wittgenstein born 26 April 1889-29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher. Wittgenstein’s work focused on logic, principle of mathematics, philosophy of...
Zarathustra
Posted by ANDRE NIEMEYER on‘He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real for imaginary’. - Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche was a german philosopher, scholar, poet, cultural critic , philosopher born 1844-1910. His fundamental question is asking what is the proper quest for human subjectivity? His body of works cover a large...