Heavy rain on a cemetery in New Orleans (shared from Glam Beckett)

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Two stars orbiting a black hole, close enough to Earth you can see it with your naked eye. Needs a better name than ‘HR6819’. #europeansouthernobservatory https://www.instagram.com/p/B_90kQmnlt6/?igshid=1k2qfkihve1j4

The “Jaw Bone” mouthpiece made by Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen ss 98

Gold Touch - 200508

Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ The Latin at the top reads: “The name of this herb is Canabe”. And beneath the image: “Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀ #Happy420 #420 #420day #fourtwenty #weed #marijuana #cannabis #medieval #manuscript #herbal #hightimes #medicine https://www.instagram.com/p/B_NciwQpw2g/?igshid=t2yd7gky4a5i

Death intrudes on a wealthy astrologer, who points to his armillary sphere as if to say “’But it was not written in the stars…” From Hans Holbein’s exquisitely grim woodblock series The Dance of Death (1523–5). More on our site, just click link in bio and search “holbein”.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #astrology #death #holbein #hansholbein #woodblock #mementomori https://www.instagram.com/p/B_adLkIJloy/?igshid=wkguavzeuxc3

Le Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique - 1909 - via Internet Archive

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos La Grande Chimère (The Great Chimera) Ink on parchment paper, 2019

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

Tsherin Sherpa  -  Fly High   (acrylic, ink, and gold on canvas, 2018)

Best of Crowley in Good Omens (2019)

Tree of Life from Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan 

Vidya Gastaldon (French, b. 1974, Besançon, France, based Genèva, Switzerland) - What Ever It Is (Eye), 2009, Mixed Media, Acrylics, Gouache, Watercolors, Pencils on old Paper

—  BRIT MARLING