The Pathos of Things
Wessie du ToitOn design and modern artefacts
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Apples of an Artist's Eye
David Hockney, Breakfast at Malibu, Wednesday 1989 (1989), oil on canvas.
Where to begin? A career as long and fertile as that of David Hockney, who died last week aged 88, cannot be rolled up or pinned down in an article. Hockney was alwa...
In Praise of Antoni Gaudí
Gaudí’s rippling facade at the Casa Batlló. (Image: Cary Bass via Wikimedia Commons)
When asked why his masterpiece, the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, was taking so long to complete, the architect Antoni Gaudí is said to have replie...
Can We Put Limits on Design?
One geo-engineering proposal involves building a dam across the Bering Strait, pictured here, to regulate ocean currents. (Image: NASA)
For Ray Kurzweil, principle researcher at Google, humanity is a design problem. The abilities that evol...
European Atlantis
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Castle on the River, 1820. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
In the background there stands a country church, solid but unimposing, nestled in a sleepy landscape of bushes and footpaths. A quaint scene, confidently sketc...
The Life of a Showman
Image: Marianne Cornelissen-Kuyt
“A way of life, I would call it.” John Green is crouching among the colourful figures of a merry-go-round, polishing the seats and conducting his final checks. All around us, fairground lights flash silentl...
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Wessie du Toit writes about design, culture, and other aspects of the modern world. His Substack is The Pathos of Things.
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