In The Church Of My Heart The Choirs In Flames.

In the church of my heart the choir’s in flames.

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian Poetry, The Modern Period; from 'A Cloud in Trousers', tr. Iowa Translations

SALT OF THE EARTH: High in Peru’s Andes Mountains, members of a 600-year-old co-op harness gravity and sunlight to harvest the world’s most elemental seasoning - photography: Juan Manuel Castro Pieto - text: Katy McColl - Modern Farmer Summer 2016

“Members of the town’s co-op harvest a small batch of early salt crystals; they’ll return when the water evaporate and leaves behind a much larger haul. Their high hats identify the pair as mestizas, women of mixed native and foreign heritage.”

“Roughly 3,000 shallow salt pools cover Qaqawiñay mountain near Maras, Peru.”

The Room of the Giants at La Malconenta (Villa Foscari). The chairs, designed by Barbara Del Vicario - the architect wife of Antonio Foscari - are based on a Roman model.

#villamalcontenta #villafoscari #antoniofoscari #barbaradelvicario #palladio #palladianvilla #brenta #veneto #italianvillas #fresco #theroomofgiants https://www.instagram.com/p/B9p-DKCpi_j/?igshid=h8b0431fmrpx

And though, yes, I learned tenebroso from Caravaggio, I found the dark on my own.

Danielle DeTiberus, "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly" (After Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (Uffizi, 1620))

““Move, enchantress. Move, Cleopatra, move your splendid body, […] leaving the poet’s heart weary. All that I have, I fling today upon the white altar of Aphrodite.’” This is what I was thinking. But she laughed and went up to the table and gulped down another 150 grams, for she was perfection and perfection knows no bounds.”

— Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

Interviewer: What difference in usage would you point out in these three languages [Russian, English, French], these three instruments?

Nabokov: Nuances. If you take framboise in French, for example, it's a scarlet color, a very red color. In English, the word raspberry is rather dull, with perhaps a little brown or violet. A rather cold color. In Russian it's a burst of light, malinovoe; the word has associations of brilliance, of gaiety, of ringing bells. How can you translate that?

- Vladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor. Bryan Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy, Eds.