Merry Winter Solstice 2025! And to mark it off, here’s a lovely woodcut by Hasui Kawase.
Hall of the Golden Hue, Hiraizumi / Hasui Kawase (1957)
Category: Art
Stable / Kathleen Herbert (2007)
I think I first mentioned Kathleen Herbert’s Stable back in mid August when I posted the video for Melanie Manchot’s Cornered Star.
Cover art from a UK release of Neil Stephenson’s Quicksilver
Another one that (currently) doesn’t seem that easy to Google (even though it should be!)
Horned Owl / Utagawa Hiroshige (1830s-1840s)
Happy Autumn Equinox 2025!
If I’ve managed to get my timings right, then this post should go up just as we tick over into autumn.
Harland Miller at York Art Gallery
Some (sadly) rather late images from York Art Gallery’s Harland Miller summer exhibit.
Generally, I prefer the book covers to the larger letters however some of the larger letter works are also very good.
As always, click to embiggen.
Letters
York
Bizzarie di varie Figure / Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1624)
A fascinating set of images by Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s Bizzarie di varie Figure. They are, in some ways, much more modern than the 1624 production date suggests and good number of them would fit nicely in with the various art movements of the early to mid 20th Century. Some also remind me of the creations that used to fill York’s Museum of Automata.
Cornered Star / Melanie Manchot (2018)
A horse strolls around a silent Brutalist estate. It sounds like it should be rather tedious, but Melanie Manchot’s Cornered Star is rather compelling.
A Post Box Topper in Beverley
I promise this blog isn’t about to become a postbox topper blog. I really do.
Having said that, here’s a rather nice teddy-bears’ picnic topper that I happened to pass in Beverley the other day.
Another Yarn-Bombed Postbox Topper in Malton
I stumbled across this rather nice ice cream van postbox topper a few days ago in Malton’s Market Place.
Two Men by the Sea / Caspar David Friedrich (1817)
Happy Summer Solstice 2025! And to celebrate, here’s Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men by the Sea from 1817 showing the 1816 Year Without a Summer.
