From the Vaults of the Unhinged: The Eye That Escaped the Body
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From the Vaults of the Unhinged: The Eye That Escaped the Body

In 1882, Odilon Redon released a lithograph that still feels eerily modern: The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Toward Infinity.

At first glance, it is deceptively simple. A single eye floats upward over a darkened sea, tethered to a small basket that resembles a skull or severed head. There is no horizon, no destination, no explanation. Only ascent.

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The Sin and The Confession
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The Sin and The Confession

Two years ago I stumbled on this totally scandalous 1880 painting from Heinrich Lossow. It’s called The Sin. I wasted no time in deciding to turn it into one of our postcards and I thoughtlessly, naively landed on Good Night and Good Fuck as the perfect copy to overlay on this instead of, wait for it—

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The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
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The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings

If Strong and Hardy is anything to me, it’s the intersection of my love for both art and science, the collision between spirituality and materialism, the surreal and the actual, the abundant still unexplained magic we live undaunted by as well as the exceptional heaps of knowledge we have acquired about ourselves and this world we inhabit.

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