Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Statue of Lucifer - Holy Trinity Church Marylebone. Aberdeenshire, UK.
The Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone, Westminster, built specifically to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon,
hasn't been used as a place of worship since the 30's, but that didn't stop
artist Paul Fryer from making a religious statement by hanging this terrifying
statue of Satan inside.
The piece, titled
"Lucifer (Morningstar)" is a wax sculpture depicting the devil snared
in a set of power lines. The statue is equal parts grotesque and beautiful,
showing Lucifer as an oily, black creature with immense white wings (created
from real feathers). Even creepier in the fact that it's lit via the church's
stained glass windows, an ironic juxtaposition that won't be lost on many.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Graduating students from Hebron University in the West Bank
Some of the 1,117 Palestinian students who
graduated from different colleges at Hebron University in the West Bank.
The late mayor of Hebron, Sheikh Mohammad Ali Al-Ja’bari, wished
to establish an institution of higher learning to offset restrictions and
obstacles created by the occupation by Israel. In 1971 the foundation was laid
and forty-three students joined the 'Sharia' college from different parts of
the Palestinian Territories. In 1983, the campus was attacked by Israeli
settlers resulting in the deaths of 3 students and 50 students were injured.
After the attack the University was closed by the Israeli Civil Administration
for a period of time.
Eventually,
the college became a university and now has an undergraduate enrolment of more
than ten thousand students.
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