1/ The world’s first maritime trade network emerged from India’s Indus-Sarasvati civilisation, the most economically productive region before 3500 BC. Lothal, a key port, accommodated 30 ships, each carrying 60 tons, facilitating extensive trade. Thread 🧵...

Jose Basso, Chilean oil on linen

You are looking at the first ever image of another multi-planet solar system

Jef Bourgeau A sudden calm, 2024

Today would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. This season carries gravity. Father’s Day, his birthday, and the anniversary of his passing all fall within 60 days. For me, grief has no straight path. It revisits, reshapes, and rises when I least expect it. But alongside it

The Arrival of the Fairies. #illustration detail by Errol Le Cain for Thorn Rose.

"Summer," by American artist, author, and Disney animator, Eyvind Earle, 1981.

David Hockney

Last Look

Cori Lee Marvin, Canadian, b. 1980 Singers, c. 2013 Watercolour on paper Housing: Private collections; limited edition prints available through the artist’s studio

Warm sunlight slants across the building walls, and at the end of the lane, a clear sky of gradually deepening blue ~ Scottish-born artist James Proudfoot’s ‘Sun on a House, Dieppe’ (1937)

Kumagai Dairaidou Shrine- Kawase Hasui, 1932

A black fungus feeds on radiation in Chernobyl. In the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, scientists found an extraordinary black fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, thriving in one of Earth’s most toxic environments. Rather than merely enduring radiation, this

Hermann Herzog - "A Moonlit Harbor" (1867)

'Home under Moonlight' by Frederick Stanley Haines , (1879 - 1960).