The Tree of Life is sculpted by more than a dozen artists with 325 animal carvings on the outside. This 140-foot artificial tree is the centerpiece of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
Snake wine is a Vietnamese alcoholic beverage that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle. The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not usually preserved for their meat but to have the snake poison dissolved in the liquor. However, the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol and therefore inactivated. In many countries in the Far East, snakes are believed to possess medicinal qualities and the wine is often advertised to cure everything from hair loss to eye troubles.
There are two varieties of snake wine:
Alyssa Monks portrays a specific place and time with simultaneous empathy and detachment.
Monks is part of the Continuing Education Faculty at the New York Academy of Art, where she teaches Flesh Painting. She currently is also an instructor at the Montclair State University.
Oh, yes, they are all paintings, not photos!
Lake George
Steamed
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A house made of doors. Can you find the right one to get inside?
An airplane house
Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957), was a Romanian sculptor, born in Hobita, Gorj, near Targu Jiu, where he placed his sculptural ensemble with The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss and The Endless Column.
As an art student he was influenced by Auguste Rodin, but his style moved beyond naturalist representation to stylized elegant forms. Brancusi was one of the first sculptors to experiment with abstract art (although never, in his own view, moving into pure abstraction). His sculptures became progressively smoother and less figurative, until only the barest outline of the original subject was left. Eric Shanes wrote a complex book about Brancusi’s life and work: Constantin Brancusi (Modern Masters Series)
The Table of Silence
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