Nicola Turner's Anatomy of Melancholy at the Royal Academy of Arts. The artist reflects on people not as individuals but as mobile systems made up of hordes of microorganisms and bacteria, in constant interaction and exchange with other organisms and with the environment.
In short, this gigantic intestine is an allegory of a human being, or even of two, joined together on a loveseat
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
