torpedo the ark

Images used for the posts published on this date  in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023         Sometimes - especially those times when, like today,...

French illustrator Édouard Riou  gives us his take on the ichthyosaur in 1863 [1]   I.    Rupert Birkin famously declares that he would like...

Jeff Koons with one of his blue gazing balls Photo by Lucy Young     Like the American comedian Jena Friedman, I've long admired the art...

Leiothrix lutea     I.    In a country in which insect numbers have fallen a staggering 65% in the last twenty years and other factors, such...

  The biosphere cannot exist without exchange  and interaction with the chthonic thanatosphere   I.    My friend Heide recently sent me a li...

Dendrophilia ALCU (A Little Crazy Universe)  on tumblr.com     'I am just back from the woods. My thighs are cold from the touch of bar...

Adapted from the cover of Henry Miller's   Notes on 'Aaron's Rod', ed. Seamus Cooney,  (Black Sparrow Press, 1980)     I.   ...

Photo of Frances Wilson by Jonathan Ring     I.    Once, in 1983, when I was twenty-years-old, I was riding in a car with a producer from th...

Wallace Smith: Illustration for  Fantazius Mallare (1922) I have discussed D. H. Lawrence's dendrophilia elsewhere on Torpedo the Ark [...

Yoruba carved wooden figure I. As everyone knows, many European artists at the beginning of the twentieth-century were inspired b...