I have been drawing this for sometime now, I’ve drawn it on A3 paper using Faber Castell pens. I am happy with how it has turned out but i may decide at a later date to add more tones or details in the lighter areas to try and give it more depth.
4169If it be granted that the brain is essentially a nerve net, then physics enters our understanding of the mind by way of the biochemistry and biophysics of neurons. But neurons are, in Feinberg’s sense, “ordinary matter.” So whatever revolutionary changes occur in physics, there will be no important lesson for the mind–body problem or for the philosophy of biology generally … The situation is not like that in the eighteenth century, when physics was mainly mechanics, and needed to be supplemented by the theory of electricity and magnetism, even for the purpose of understanding the behavior of ordinary bulk matter.
J.J.C Smart, The Content of Physicalism (via philphys)
During the fledgling age of portrait photography, it was of the utmost importance for the subjects to stay still for a period of time. Obviously since this would be difficult for children, their mothers were brought in for the portrait.
For reasons I cannot fathom, it was common for the mothers to be covered in cloth or a curtain. These fabric- covered matriarch were jokingly referred to as ‘Ghost Mums’.
We were talking about this, Foca…
“I am a chair. I will win the Hunger Games.”
