Dr John
RustyBertrandAn amazing piece of sculpture by the artist Frances Bruno Catalano, which symbolizes the vacuum created by being forced to leave your land, your life, your people... for any reason.
Lightning Bjornsson* 
@RustyBertrand What it feels like to be English without an England to realistically go home to.
🇦🇷🇵🇸Peritocaligrafo 
@RustyBertrand Excelente síntesis
pmroman 🇪🇺@Peritocaligrafo @RustyBertrand Yes, but in my experience the vacuum is partially filled up by new people, new experiences and new lands.
@pmroman @RustyBertrand Exactamente, mi estimado amigo. Lo que hicieron mis ancestros españoles e italianos en Argentina
@Peritocaligrafo @RustyBertrand He vivido, y aun vivo, la mayor parte de mi vida fuera del pais donde nací y viví mi infancia. Así es la vida, nos da con una mano lo que nos ha quitado con la otra. Si alguien puede entender este sentimiento, son sin duda, los Argentinos.
Aviva Gary
g_ein_g
Stefan Münz@RustyBertrand Here's a site that shows some more of these:
https://www.boredpanda.com/hollow-sculptures-les-voyageurs-bruno-catalano/
https://www.boredpanda.com/hollow-sculptures-les-voyageurs-bruno-catalano/
The Beautifully Imperfect Bronze Sculptures Of Bruno Catalano Are Not All There
French artist Bruno Catalano has created an extraordinary series of eye-catching bronze sculptures called “Les Voyageurs” in Marseilles that depict realistic human workers with large parts of their bodies missing. They are skillful works of art even without the omissions, but the missing parts of the sculptures make them truly extraordinary and unique. They leave room for the imagination – are they missing something, or is it something that these “voyagers” have simply left behind?
jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:
Håkon Waage@RustyBertrand
The same idea as that behind the Prague memorial to the victims of communism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Victims_of_Communism
Sandra Hoenle (she/her) 🇨🇦@RustyBertrand great, very moving piece of art.
Salamandramatheus@RustyBertrand HOW THE FUCK
Karl Auerbach@RustyBertrand I've long had an interest in that moment of inflection when a person realizes that he/she must leave home and emigrate to a new home.
British Tech Guru@RustyBertrand My experience as an immigrant to the USA is that although superficially welcoming I ended up with different problems.
Jeroen
Madredeus - Ao Longe o Mar
Alopece@RustyBertrand Beautiful. Except I cannot help wondering how stable it is, mounted outside. Looks like a strong wind could warp or topple it.
Sarah W@michaelvcooper1 @RustyBertrand
It's in the old port of Marseille, it gets very windy there.
The sculpture is more solid than it looks.
It's in the old port of Marseille, it gets very windy there.
The sculpture is more solid than it looks.
@RustyBertrand
Marseille !
Marseille !
Christof Damian 💙💛@RustyBertrand
Very cool. I saw a similar one in someone's garden. I wonder if it is by the same artist.
@sixtus
Very cool. I saw a similar one in someone's garden. I wonder if it is by the same artist.
@sixtus
MistherFrenchFries@RustyBertrand is it standing in international waters?
Nicole Parsons#KochNetwork is in the process of creating the largest mass migration of humanity because of the climate change they denied existed
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/10/world/climate-global-displacement-report-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/forget-managed-retreat-us-climate-migration-will-be-chaos
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/mapping-migration-in-the-face-of-climate-change
Climate crisis could displace 1.2 billion people by 2050, report warns
The global climate crisis could see more than a billion people displaced from their homes in the next 30 years, as ecological disasters drive mass migrations and greater armed conflict, according to a new report released Wednesday.
Kevin RussellIts not funny. Displaced?
-to run where? Oh global warming? We should run to Canada, cause, uh global warming? The country on fire? that had 600 people die on their beds from the heatwave? that lost two towns and countless bridges?
There isnt any running away. There isnt any safe spot. There isnt any winning this game. There is no safe place. There is no "we are going to leave this problem to you and go over there where there is no problem"
Its all one boat.
#Climate
Uncle Harvey@Uncleharvey @Npars01 @RustyBertrand
So we must, and we will, build all the new energy, as a first step. Stop injecting hundreds of billions of tons of co2 into our air, we can do it, and its lots of jobs.
its cheap, we can do it, lets start now. tell your friends, we're insisting.
And it's so last century.
@kevinrns @Npars01 @RustyBertrand
Unless you own the oil companies, we will not.
Unless you're paying off the politicians, we will not.
If you use gasoline to mow your lawns, drive anywhere, cook or heat with gas, fly away on vacation someplace, or take a cruise, we will not.
Unless you own the oil companies, we will not.
Unless you're paying off the politicians, we will not.
If you use gasoline to mow your lawns, drive anywhere, cook or heat with gas, fly away on vacation someplace, or take a cruise, we will not.
@Uncleharvey @Npars01 @RustyBertrand
Your prediction of failure suits you.
Richie Enameller@Npars01 @RustyBertrand @LauraJMG Mass migration? With the current political climate, it will probably be mass extermination.
@kroltanz @RustyBertrand @LauraJMG
It already has. Ethiopia. Somalia. Sub-Saharan Africa. Central America. Venezuela. Bangladesh. Libya.
Drought. Flooding. Hurricanes. Sand storms. Wildfires. Torrential rains
They all cause famines, civil wars over dwindling resources, mass exodus
@Npars01 @RustyBertrand @LauraJMG and it’s now affecting the affluent countries, who are reacting by putting policies in place to deny assistance.
John "John Davies" Davies ☑️@RustyBertrand Ooh, that'll be good when it's finished.
sabik@RustyBertrand
Alt text: statue of a man walking, grim, carrying a simple suitcase with straps; but where his body should be, there is a void
Alt text: statue of a man walking, grim, carrying a simple suitcase with straps; but where his body should be, there is a void
知耻而未勇@RustyBertrand
堕肢体，黜聪明，离形去知，同于大通，此谓"坐忘"。——《庄子.大宗师》
我看到图片的第一反应，是联想到道家“物我两忘”说，但看到背景介绍，也觉得离乡而真空的注释也很有趣。当然，前提是这‘’故土‘’不是中国这般残暴乖戾的极权。
堕肢体，黜聪明，离形去知，同于大通，此谓"坐忘"。——《庄子.大宗师》
我看到图片的第一反应，是联想到道家“物我两忘”说，但看到背景介绍，也觉得离乡而真空的注释也很有趣。当然，前提是这‘’故土‘’不是中国这般残暴乖戾的极权。
Michael Vilain@RustyBertrand Not sure if this is the same artist but if not, it's possible there was a Vulcan Mind Meld involved.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@RustyBertrand Makes me think of another sculpture of a mother and child, where the absent working father is a shape in the negative space.
Herms
Johannes Brakensiek@RustyBertrand @afelia Great sculpture. But to be true, I thought it‘s a man who needs to go to work…
Peter_Panther
Anthony Hove 🐬@RustyBertrand some work of art there.
MostlyTato@RustyBertrand
Similar vibes to the Gallos sculpture by Rubin Eynon for English Heritage.
Gallos portrays a figure 8 ft (2.4 m) tall in a cloak, resting on a sword and wearing a crown. The figure at Tintagel Castle is only partly rendered, with open gaps left in the sculpture through which the viewer can see the landscape beyond, giving a spectral appearance.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallos_(sculpture)
Similar vibes to the Gallos sculpture by Rubin Eynon for English Heritage.
Gallos portrays a figure 8 ft (2.4 m) tall in a cloak, resting on a sword and wearing a crown. The figure at Tintagel Castle is only partly rendered, with open gaps left in the sculpture through which the viewer can see the landscape beyond, giving a spectral appearance.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallos_(sculpture)
Hopeful Humanizer@RustyBertrand This struck a chord with me because my father was a refugee from a war-torn land.
Wenslauw@RustyBertrand the Greek have a beautiful word for it: xenitia
Pete@RustyBertrand BOOM! That’s powerful.