December 6, 2021 - Dsarttakes

Quote of the Day: Letters from Father Christmas & JRR Tolkien

December 6, 2021

“I hope you will like the little things I have sent you. You seem to be most interested in Railways just now, so I am sending you mostly things of that sort. I send as much love as ever, in fact more. We have both, the old Polar Bear and I, enjoyed having so many nice letters from you and […]

There has always been an intrinsic connection betwen Art & Death. For centuries and millenia human expression has been awakened deeply during times of war, strife and pandemics. Artists across cultures and time-zones have always responded with creative fury. Today, as a global population under threat, we have had quite a medieval reaction to the coronavirus. By self-isolation and quarantine. Boarding ourselves up in our homesteads, much like the merchants and wokers of Medieval Europe I imagine. This leads me to want to share some of the most iconic works of art that address these subjects. Be it the Black Death (the plague), influenza or more recently the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I present these works, not for you to panic, but to just stop for a second and send out prayers and healing for all the lost souls, who have gone before their time.

Day: December 6, 2021