Author: kai
Weird Old Books: New Frontiers of Science (1964)
Weird Old Books: New Frontiers of Science (1964)
New Frontiers of Science, by William L. Laurence. (Bantam Books, 1964.)
Reading about what people used to imagine the future would hold is always fascinating, but a particular passage in this book stands out for its description of contemporary (60s) science. Dog head transplants. I don’t…
I made a separate Tumblr for all my weird old books. It’s called Weird Old Books.
Chalk & charcoal on found handmade paper.
Another derelict home in rural Monaghan; this one destroyed by house fire.
(Fox calendar, fifth image – dating this fire to 2011?)
Derelict house in rural Monaghan.
Derelict house in rural Kerry. Decades’ worth of brightly-coloured paint peeling at different rates made the whole building a crumbling kaleidoscope. Lots of religious paraphernalia too. Be still my magpie heart. I almost stole that Mater Dolorosa (first image) off the wall, but I just couldn’t do it…
More photos from the quarry.
I liked the colours that day.
A disused quarry pit, now filled with rain, and old equipment glimpsed through a keyhole.
I’ve been finding myself in derelict places a lot lately.
Condemned tower block, Ballymun.
I’m painting on an upstairs window in my house.
Work in progress, based on a detail from this Japanese handscroll, North Sea, by Zhou Chen.