This is a collection of visual art that I found moving in 2024 (mostly from my Twitter bookmarks, credits for each below). A common theme that seems to emerge in this selection is the juxtaposition of the formidable and the dull, the divine and the mundane, the frightening and the graceful. I would speculate this combination of technology, nature, and human figures resonated with me because of what fills my mind a lot of the time—the thin line humanity threads away from chaos is often disorderly in itself, but is an inescapable and necessary pursuit.

(Jan 3, 2025)

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Information about each image above, starting from the top left going clockwise:

  1. Shinto priest blesses first Japanese-produced F35 (ca. 2019). I couldn’t identify the photographer to credit them.

  2. A man poses for a photo in front of Soyuz rocket, (1980s), Baikonur, Kazakh SSR. I couldn’t identify the photographer to credit them.

  3. Paradiso, Canto Ventesimosettimo [Eighth Heaven, the Sphere of the Fixed Stars from Dante, Divine Comedy] (ca. 1564)

  4. Cathedral in Winter, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1821)

  5. Eyes, Karl Sisson (2017)

  6. In Principio Era La Fine, Nicola Samorì (2016)

  7. Heures, Louis de Laval (1480)

  8. Christmas in Central Park, Eyvind Earle (1916-2000)

  9. Notre-Dame-de-Paris sous la neige, Michel Delacroix (b. 1933)

  10. Jean-Pierre Ugarte (b. 1950)

  11. Nanzen-ji, Kyoto. I couldn’t identify the photographer to credit them.

  12. Transamazonica, Pedro Martinelli (1998)

  13. Sahara, Algeria, Sebastião Salgado (2009)