Justin Raphael Roykovich I AM NOT THE SUM OF YOUR FEARS, 2017 I AM NOT THE SUM OF THEIR FEARS, 2017
Home Away From Home, 2016 Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts - Fridley, MN
Digital Photographs, 2015
Contemporary abstraction holds privilege and is therefore capable of degradation and erasure.
Studies in #blue. #🔵 #sanjuan #puertorico (at San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Justin Raphael Roykovich Vogue Dancer 1 dot gif 2010
(stupid tumblr and their non-animating-gifs-when-they-are-too-big. Here's a link to it animated: http://makeagif.com/i/ASnIOg)
Feminism Digital Media Photograph Friday December 6, 2013 : 01:18pm Justin Raphael Roykovich
Dustin Zito Sucking Cock Digital Media Photograph 2013 Justin Raphael Roykovich
The Evolution of Miley Cyrus Digital Photograph 2013 Justin Raphael Roykovich
Piazza San Marco, Venice. 2013 Justin Raphael Roykovich
Diamonds, Test 1 (In Progress) 1;46 2012 Justin Raphael Roykovich
Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life.
"In the past few decades, the United States and the Soviet Union have accomplished something that — unless we destroy ourselves first — will be remembered a thousand years from now: the first close-up exploration of dozens of other worlds. Together we have found much out there that is magnificent, instructive and of practical value. But we have found no trace, no hint of life. The Earth is an anomaly. In all the solar system, it is, so far as we know, the only inhabited planet.
We humans are one among millions of separate species who live in a world burgeoning, overflowing with life. And yet, most species that ever were are no more. After flourishing for one hundred fifty million years, the dinosaurs became extinct. Every last one. No species is guaranteed its tenure on this planet. And humans, the first beings to devise the means for their own destruction, have been here for only several million years.
We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think. We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. We have an obligation to fight for life on Earth — not just for ourselves but for all those, humans and others, who came before us and to whom we are beholden, and for all those who, if we are wise enough, will come after. There is no cause more urgent than to survive to eliminate on a global basis the growing threats of nuclear war, environmental catastrophe, economic collapse and mass starvation. These problems were created by humans and can only be solved by humans. No social convention, no political system, no economic hypothesis, no religious dogma is more important.
The hard truth seems to be this: We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We would prefer it to be otherwise, of course, but there is no compelling evidence for a cosmic Parent who will care for us and save us from ourselves. It is up to us."
- Carl Sagan
Via Brain Pickings.
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I’ve been invited to partake in a printmaking residency this summer in Venice, but I need your help!
Re-blogging myself. No shame.
Untitled Digital Photograph Dimensions Variable 2013
Untitled Self Portrait Toned Cyanotype Digital file, dimensions variable 2011
Obama condemns a 'shameful day for Washington' 30 second video 2013
Adam Gum Bichromate Print Approx. 8" x 10" From the Series Sparagmos and Omophagia 2011