Ah, St.Bartholomew - such a confusing portrayal. A man who is clearly alive and in possession of his own skin, holding his own skin, which has been flayed off. And he is bearded...underneath his skin?
Then again, painting a genuinely flayed skinless man on the wall of the Sistine Chapel might have been thought of as a bit much... If it wasn't for the fact that the whole wall is covered in half naked bodybuilders, half naked bodybuilders with boobs - which seems to be how Michelangelo understood women - and a guy having his dick bitten off by a snake.
Sorry, where were we? Oh yes. Trees. Cork. Lovely stuff. Can't get enough of it. Greetings and benedictions to you
Thank you for the art history intervention! On closer inspection, the flayed skin of St Bart boasts hair on the top of its flayed scalp, leading me to conjecture that, given the beard was spared, perhaps this was just a self-haircut gone too far? As someone who cuts their own hair on the regular, I can see how such a slipup could easily happen on a winter's morning. Especially if one is attempting the trim with the knife of one's martyrdom. Oops. 💇
Fabulous! Coincidentally, I started yesterday on my first tree drawing in ages, trying to capture the patterns in the bark of an oak tree. Extra-coincidentally, minutes before reading this post I read (in the book "In Search of Now - the science and mystery of the present moment") that "when we move our fingers across a surface, the feeling of texture – the roughness of tree bark or subtle furriness of velvet – comes from nerves in the skin being stimulated at intervals of 1-2 milliseconds" (for context, this is in a discussion about how, in most contexts, we cannot distinguish any time difference between signals less than ~40 milliseconds apart).
Wow - that's amazing! It prompted me to do a little more sensory research: in 2 milliseconds, sound travels 69cm. In the same time, light travels 600km. I don't know what the conclusion is here: touch is faster than hearing but slower than sight? Although touch only works over distances of 0cm so... 🤷♂️😂 p.s. I loved your last story: https://peakrill.substack.com/p/attention-is-prayer 💚
Ah, St.Bartholomew - such a confusing portrayal. A man who is clearly alive and in possession of his own skin, holding his own skin, which has been flayed off. And he is bearded...underneath his skin?
Then again, painting a genuinely flayed skinless man on the wall of the Sistine Chapel might have been thought of as a bit much... If it wasn't for the fact that the whole wall is covered in half naked bodybuilders, half naked bodybuilders with boobs - which seems to be how Michelangelo understood women - and a guy having his dick bitten off by a snake.
Sorry, where were we? Oh yes. Trees. Cork. Lovely stuff. Can't get enough of it. Greetings and benedictions to you
Thank you for the art history intervention! On closer inspection, the flayed skin of St Bart boasts hair on the top of its flayed scalp, leading me to conjecture that, given the beard was spared, perhaps this was just a self-haircut gone too far? As someone who cuts their own hair on the regular, I can see how such a slipup could easily happen on a winter's morning. Especially if one is attempting the trim with the knife of one's martyrdom. Oops. 💇
Fabulous! Coincidentally, I started yesterday on my first tree drawing in ages, trying to capture the patterns in the bark of an oak tree. Extra-coincidentally, minutes before reading this post I read (in the book "In Search of Now - the science and mystery of the present moment") that "when we move our fingers across a surface, the feeling of texture – the roughness of tree bark or subtle furriness of velvet – comes from nerves in the skin being stimulated at intervals of 1-2 milliseconds" (for context, this is in a discussion about how, in most contexts, we cannot distinguish any time difference between signals less than ~40 milliseconds apart).
Wow - that's amazing! It prompted me to do a little more sensory research: in 2 milliseconds, sound travels 69cm. In the same time, light travels 600km. I don't know what the conclusion is here: touch is faster than hearing but slower than sight? Although touch only works over distances of 0cm so... 🤷♂️😂 p.s. I loved your last story: https://peakrill.substack.com/p/attention-is-prayer 💚