Helium — Susannah Martin

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Helium, 2017 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)

Portrait of Mnonja — Mickalene Thomas

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Portrait of Mnonja, 2010 by Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971)

Girl with Blonde Hair — Helene Schjerfbeck

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Girl with Blonde Hair, 1916 by Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)

If a thing can be filmed, film is implied in the thing itself (Don DeLillo)

“Film is more than the twentieth century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. It’s the filmed century. You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves. The whole world is on film, all the time. Spy satellites, microscopic scanners, pictures of the uterus, embryos, sex, war, assassinations, everything.”

From Don DeLillo’s novel The Names.

March — Wenceslaus Hollar

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March, 1629 by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) (After Jan van de Velde II, ca. 1593–1641)