Category: Art

Here are some paintings of street corners, as well as some experimentation with AI art generation.

WHAT IS AN ALLEYWAY? A narrow space between or behind buildings, often used as a passageway. Oftentimes the owner of the strip of land is unclear. They tend to be left off official maps. Alleyways (alleys) are liminal, in-between spaces. Alleyways are both ‘territory’ and ‘network’. Territory: A space where various facets of social life […]

Motorbikes and motorcycles through the ages

Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at – nothing – at nothing,…

Having an Alice In Wonderland tea party? Here’s what it might look like, according to various illustrators.

Header: Cathedral Square, Milan – Illustration by Dino Buzzati, 1957

Some of these cars are from vintage times; others are modern illustrations.

Volcanos in art and storytelling

Treasure: It’s never about the treasure. It’s about the adventure of finding it. Treasure in adventure stories is a stand-in for ‘winning’.

Graveyards are a necessary element of a Gothic setting. The graveyard is a liminal space, connecting the living to the dead.

There’s a trope of children’s literature in which a character gazes out a window, first longing for adventure, then leaving to go on one. Below are some artworks and illustrations of characters looking out of windows.