“flowers and mirror” - abbott fuller graves

[Text ID: “I’m waiting uselessly for myself.”]

Still-life with Oranges, c. 1863, Rafael Romero Barros (1832-1895)

Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (translated by Meredith Weatherby)

Production date: 1916-04-16

16 April 1916-04-16

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

Persephone by John Aleshire

Source: cooperhewitt.org

Rome, Italy

“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.”

Susan Sontag - “Death Kit”

Set of three Coiled Snakes, Bronze, possibly Spain or Germany, 1570-1629, detail. © The Wallace Collection

— Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of “Love, An Index”, from Love, An Index (via antigonick)

1. Madeline Miller 2. Suzy Kassem 3. Susan Sontag

[ID: I am wary of need that tastes like destruction.]

For this specific exhibition they used 200 thousand flowers. The title Florilegium comes from the Latin “to keep and to preserve flowers”.