Opacities can coexist and converge, weaving fabrics. To understand these truly one must focus on the texture of the weave and not on the nature of its components.
Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
1. Fratelli Alinari,
The Etruscan Chimera of Arezzo, 1850–1900
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg
2. Hans Bellmer,
Les Jeux de la Poupée 1938-49
3. Louis Jean Desprez, The Chimera (La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez), ca. 1777–84
4. Unknown photographer, Venice, San Marco, detail of the south façade, c. 1850. Daguerreotype
5. Alec Komaroff, Colorful Object n.59, 2024
from the series Chimeras
6. Colorized electron micrograph.
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
7. William Henry Fox Talbot,
Photomicrograph of two insect wings, c. 1840.
Courtesy of National Science and Media Museum
8. François Hers,
Intérieurs, 1981
9. Alec Komaroff, Colorful Object n.66, 2024
from the series Chimeras