Author: Pradip Malde
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Science and Art
The teaching of the sciences and the arts needs to be conjoined and sustained from the earliest stages of education. In the Foreward to Platinotype my friend and co-author Mike Ware writes that the book “avoids much scientific jargon, but devotes all due attention to explaining technical and practical details, keeping in mind a readership…
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On the Olive Tree, Harmony, and Subjugation
Olive Tree ii. Paros, Greece, 2010. 280x350mm, from enlarged 8×10 inch original negative. Platinum-palladium (1:1) print on Revere. Looking where I may walk, the horizon erupts. Symbol of peace, sprouting from wisdom and prestidigitation (how a goddess wins the people’s hearts), the olive tree also becomes humankind’s leeward desert. Xerxes burned the sacred olive tree…