Guy Rubicon (Belgian, 1979) - Red Rider (2024)

Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience. 

Best of Lohengrin O's opera clip titles

This was supposed to be a focus stack, but my photos were very poorly aligned and uhh it made this instead. Definitely not a good specimen reference photo but it's kind of cool

A collection of Black Books of Hours

Black Hours, ca. 1475 (Morgan Library, New York)

Horae beatae marie secundum usum curie romane, ca. 1458 (Hispanic Society of America)

Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, ca. 1466-1476 (Austrian National Library)

It’s like a lion fish

A Winged Hussar’s Zischägge, Poland, ca. 18th century, housed at the Wawel Royal Castle State Art Collection.

In my stage adaptation, I’m struggling to decide which nationality Nemo should be. I’m making him a violent narcissist and I don’t want to come off like ‘the scary horrible Indian man captures these white people.’ But maybe his rage against imperialism heightens the audiences empathy and helps his actions make sense? Or perhaps I could keep his nationality vague like the book to add to his vampiric air. Much to think about!

Key Features of a Captain Nemo Interpretation

indian (i cannot stress how important it is that this is number one with an electric bullet for reasons that would take another book to explain)

raw charisma

melancholic solitude

gutwrenching bleeding-heart sympathy for the oppressed

philosophical ambiguity so intricately multilayered that it offsets the murder stuff

the murder stuff

Am-a-zing!

▫️ “The Dearest Devotion ” ▫️

(air, land, sea)- to self, your loves, and community, on our ever so small yet vast planet.

(cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze) ceramic wall tiles made from my gay and trans perspective :)

extras: The albatrosses stem from the broad number of female same-sex lifelong couples. The bucks and whales stem from documented homosexual behaviour of the species. A kobudai is also featured in the third tile changing sex from female to male.

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

Manifishing

men should grunt and moan more