A parcel of straws Flutes are one of the most ancient musical instruments in the world. They were made with any material at hand: hollow bones of small birds, clay, reeds, bamboo, straw. From early times they were the instruments of shepherds and country folk. But the humble flute was also endowed with magical powers in […]
The Aztec god Xochipilli is associated with four animals, the mischievous monkey, the hocco, the royal Eagle but most of all, the butterfly, which is fitting with his name of Flowerprince (xochi: flower; pilli: prince). We shall see that the butterfly has for the Aztecs like for other cultures many symbolic meanings and we shall […]
Brass Olokun and digital Olokun. The Yoruba sea-god enters the metaverse. Are NFTs a new way of appropriating indigenous cultures or a bridge between traditional and digital art? Appropriation is not appreciation! Homo sum et humani nihil alienum a me puto (I am a human being and therefore nothing human is strange to me) The […]
Egyptian Goddess Nut: A Recurrent Figure in the Work of Nancy Spero / Her Digital Avatars by Anaïs Zhang. “Only a machine can appreciate a sonnet written by another machine.” – R. Queneau A comparison of the work of two artists on the same mythological figure will allow us to analyze some aspects of the […]