Hokusai made this print when he was about 70. Mount Fuji is the small peak in the middle.
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, 1865
Paintings
Some of the paintings I post. All of them are in the public domain, from the Art Institute of Chicago’s open collection.
About
I’m Tyler Wallace. My work is in AI, so most of what I read and post is about AI. This page is where I post the other things I read: philosophers, scripture from many traditions, paintings, and poems.
Everything here is in the public domain. When a piece is a translation, I credit the translator.
