Nicolas Robert
@robertsnickc.bsky.social
Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.”
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.”
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
Marble #sculpture (detail) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini [1598–1680] #art
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Marble #sculpture (detail) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini [1598–1680] #art
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#Photography by Vladimir Zotov #art
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#Photography by Vladimir Zotov #art
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘Sasuke, my dear cat.’ #Photography by Masahisa Fukase (1977) #art
Fukase raised his cat since he was a kitten & said that he imagined himself changing into a cat.
When photographing Sasuke, Fukase said, “I saw myself reflected in the cat, & wanted to photograph the love I saw there.”
Fukase raised his cat since he was a kitten & said that he imagined himself changing into a cat.
When photographing Sasuke, Fukase said, “I saw myself reflected in the cat, & wanted to photograph the love I saw there.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
‘Sasuke, my dear cat.’ #Photography by Masahisa Fukase (1977) #art
Fukase raised his cat since he was a kitten & said that he imagined himself changing into a cat.
When photographing Sasuke, Fukase said, “I saw myself reflected in the cat, & wanted to photograph the love I saw there.”
Fukase raised his cat since he was a kitten & said that he imagined himself changing into a cat.
When photographing Sasuke, Fukase said, “I saw myself reflected in the cat, & wanted to photograph the love I saw there.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
In Santiago, Chile
The days are interminably long:
Several eternities in a day.
Like the vendors of seaweed
Travelling on the backs of mules:
You yawn - you yawn again.
Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018)
#Photography, Z. Stellas
The days are interminably long:
Several eternities in a day.
Like the vendors of seaweed
Travelling on the backs of mules:
You yawn - you yawn again.
Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018)
#Photography, Z. Stellas
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In Santiago, Chile
The days are interminably long:
Several eternities in a day.
Like the vendors of seaweed
Travelling on the backs of mules:
You yawn - you yawn again.
Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018)
#Photography, Z. Stellas
The days are interminably long:
Several eternities in a day.
Like the vendors of seaweed
Travelling on the backs of mules:
You yawn - you yawn again.
Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018)
#Photography, Z. Stellas
‘Remy listening to the sea.’ #Photography by Edouard Boubat (1955) #art
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
‘Remy listening to the sea.’ #Photography by Edouard Boubat (1955) #art
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
~ Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), ‘Essential Writings.’
#Sculpture
~ Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), ‘Essential Writings.’
#Sculpture
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
~ Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), ‘Essential Writings.’
#Sculpture
~ Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), ‘Essential Writings.’
#Sculpture
Macro #photography of Butterfly Wings by Linden Gledhill #art
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Macro #photography of Butterfly Wings by Linden Gledhill #art
‘Sunset over Seeley's Bay,’ ‘Burnt Hills’ & ‘Great Blue Heron.’ #Photography by Matt Molloy #art
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
‘Sunset over Seeley's Bay,’ ‘Burnt Hills’ & ‘Great Blue Heron.’ #Photography by Matt Molloy #art