Habitants

Judy Chicago
Purple Atmosphere
(series, On Fire)
ca. 1969
modern inkjet print from vintage negative
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Judy Chicago
Multi-color Atmosphere
(series, On Fire)
1970
modern inkjet print from vintage negative
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Judy Chicago
Bridge Atmosphere
(series, On Fire)
1970
modern inkjet print from vintage negative
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Judy Chicago
Smoke Holes #2
(series, On Fire)
1970
modern inkjet print from vintage negative
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Judy Chicago
The Deflowering of Nye + Brown
(series, On Fire)
2012
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Francis Frith
The Broken Obelisk, Karnak
1857
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

Alexander Gardner
Mushroom Rock on Alum Creek, Kansas
211 miles west of the Missouri River
1867
albumen print
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC

Salomon Gessner
Landscape with Memorial Column
1767
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pierre Gaudard
Le Lorey, Manche
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Trent Parke
Backyard Swing Set
2003
pigment print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Ana Mendieta
Anima (Alma / Soul)
1976
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Ana Mendieta
Silueta Works in Mexico
1973-77
modern inkjet prints from vintage negatives
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Ana Mendieta
Untitled (Esculturas Rupestres)
1981
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Tim Gardner
Untitled (Going-Away Party)
1999
watercolor on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Tim Gardner
Figure in a Melting Snowfield
2002
watercolor on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Joakim Skovgaard
Sheep-shearing in Lolland
1878
oil on canvas
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark

Frank Wilbert Stokes
Bowdoin Bay, Greenland
1893
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

    The laws of God, the laws of man,

He may keep that will and can;

Not I: let God and man decree

Laws for themselves and not for me;

And if my ways are not as theirs

Let them mind their own affairs.

Their deeds I judge and much condemn,

Yet when did I make laws for them?

Please yourselves, say I, and they

Need only look the other way.

But no, they will not; they must still

Wrest their neighbour to their will,

And make me dance as they desire

With jail and gallows and hell-fire.

And how am I to face the odds

Of man's bedevilment and God's?

I, a stranger and afraid

In a world I never made.

They will be master, right or wrong;

Though both are foolish, both are strong.

And since, my soul, we cannot fly

To Saturn or to Mercury,

Keep we must, if keep we can,

These foreign laws of God and man.

– A.E. Housman (1922)