Charlayn von Solms
@charlayn.bsky.social
Sculptor, lapsed academic
I use assemblage to create contemporary art based on the compositional strategies of Archaic Greek oral-formulaic poetry.
https://charlaynvonsolms.com/link-in-bio
I use assemblage to create contemporary art based on the compositional strategies of Archaic Greek oral-formulaic poetry.
https://charlaynvonsolms.com/link-in-bio
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Charlayn von Solms
@charlayn.bsky.social
· Aug 16
For #BlueSkyArtShow a compilation image showing every sculpture in the series "A Catalogue of Shapes". A collection of assemblages constructed to explore compositional, structural, and interpretive similarities between Homeric poetics and sculptural assemblage.
#pieces #shapes #ancientbluesky #art
#pieces #shapes #ancientbluesky #art
Can anyone account for the whereabouts of @wildobliquities.bsky.social at 7:30 am, August 13, 2025?
December 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Can anyone account for the whereabouts of @wildobliquities.bsky.social at 7:30 am, August 13, 2025?
Compilation of scale studio drawings for assemblage sculptures (from left: Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ, and Helena ΑΕΘΛΟΝ). Ink, and marker on paper.
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Compilation of scale studio drawings for assemblage sculptures (from left: Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ, and Helena ΑΕΘΛΟΝ). Ink, and marker on paper.
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ, assemblage (fishing buoy, spring calipers, hand-forged calipers, camping stove, light fixture ceiling hook cup, combination square blades, pencil sharpener, tracing wheel, saltshaker, gate valve head, toast rack parts, pepper grinder, wood, paint).
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ, assemblage (fishing buoy, spring calipers, hand-forged calipers, camping stove, light fixture ceiling hook cup, combination square blades, pencil sharpener, tracing wheel, saltshaker, gate valve head, toast rack parts, pepper grinder, wood, paint).
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
December 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
December 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them."
(Iliad.4.440-445)
(Iliad.4.440-445)
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them."
(Iliad.4.440-445)
(Iliad.4.440-445)
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December 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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"Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome,
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome,
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
Reposted by Charlayn von Solms
Encountering the ghosts of Christmas past is what Facebook is for. BlueSky is for lying on the grass and staring at fluffy clouds rolling by.
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Encountering the ghosts of Christmas past is what Facebook is for. BlueSky is for lying on the grass and staring at fluffy clouds rolling by.
If you're going to own a signed first edition, this is the inscription you want it to have:
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you're going to own a signed first edition, this is the inscription you want it to have:
An embryonic Polyhymnia.
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
An embryonic Polyhymnia.
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
Homeric poetry has been accused of glorifying violence, oppressive social hierarchies, and the patriarchy. But it has also been interpreted as antiwar, critical of religion, and lauded for giving rare agency to female characters. To an artist, such contradictions make Homeric poetry catnip.
what's with the epithets? - valuing Classics - charlayn von solms dotcom
Epithets in Artwork Titles. Charlayn von Solms Use of Epithets. Willem Boshoff's Blind Alphabet. Ancient Greek and Braille
charlaynvonsolms.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Homeric poetry has been accused of glorifying violence, oppressive social hierarchies, and the patriarchy. But it has also been interpreted as antiwar, critical of religion, and lauded for giving rare agency to female characters. To an artist, such contradictions make Homeric poetry catnip.
"Too complex, too strange". That's the exact feedback I keep getting 😮.
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Too complex, too strange". That's the exact feedback I keep getting 😮.
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
"who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans?
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans?
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
"and it occurred to me, I said nobody is ever going to even know a thing about this in years to come. It is going to be like any other 300 shipwrecks, commercial shipwrecks that have taken place in the Great Lakes and nobody, it is going to be completely forgotten, and that is why I wrote that song"
Music Making History: Gordon Lightfoot & The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"and it occurred to me, I said nobody is ever going to even know a thing about this in years to come. It is going to be like any other 300 shipwrecks, commercial shipwrecks that have taken place in the Great Lakes and nobody, it is going to be completely forgotten, and that is why I wrote that song"
"the scale of expenditure on gambling is having economy-wide repercussions. One effect is the immiseration of South Africans who gamble away a disproportionate share of their income ... the other is the displacement of productive sectors by the nearly entirely extractive online gambling sector."
Read about how the financial sector collects fees from the billions it channels into gambling websites. #GamblingAwayOurFuture
SA’s gambling crisis: facilitators, criminals and money launderers
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December 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"the scale of expenditure on gambling is having economy-wide repercussions. One effect is the immiseration of South Africans who gamble away a disproportionate share of their income ... the other is the displacement of productive sectors by the nearly entirely extractive online gambling sector."
Slept in my Rolling Stones shirt and got no satisfaction.
Slept in my Beatles shirt and woke up yesterday.
Slept in my Wham! shirt and woke up before I had to go go.
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Slept in my Rolling Stones shirt and got no satisfaction.
"Eurydice" by William Kentridge
Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”
#ancientbluesky #classicalreception #art
Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”
#ancientbluesky #classicalreception #art
William Kentridge on Instagram: "Eurydice
Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” at @glyndebourne, to be conducted by @jonny_arcangelo, as part of the Glyndebourne Festiv...
Get insight into the upcoming Glyndebourne Festival production of Monteverdi's
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December 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Eurydice" by William Kentridge
Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”
#ancientbluesky #classicalreception #art
Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”
#ancientbluesky #classicalreception #art
I don’t know who needs to see this, but I did.
Charles Schultz and the original Snoopy.
Charles Schultz and the original Snoopy.
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Charlayn von Solms
It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.
10,000-year-old genomes from southern Africa reshape our understanding of human evolution | Daily Maverick
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.
"the narrator (who calls himself Hesiod) reflects also on the medium that allows him to present his teaching, i.e. language. His use of etymology as an instrument ... implies a certain understanding of the way in which language works, or as we might call it, a 'philosophy of language'."
A. Vergados
A. Vergados
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"the narrator (who calls himself Hesiod) reflects also on the medium that allows him to present his teaching, i.e. language. His use of etymology as an instrument ... implies a certain understanding of the way in which language works, or as we might call it, a 'philosophy of language'."
A. Vergados
A. Vergados
"All this pretending calls to mind an old Soviet joke: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." In the Chatversity, the roles are just as scripted and cynical. Faculty: "They pretend to support us, and we pretend to teach." Students: "They pretend to educate us, and we pretend to learn."
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"All this pretending calls to mind an old Soviet joke: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." In the Chatversity, the roles are just as scripted and cynical. Faculty: "They pretend to support us, and we pretend to teach." Students: "They pretend to educate us, and we pretend to learn."
Reminder: technology is not always inevitable.
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reminder: technology is not always inevitable.