Nothing, perhaps. Only Shadows

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

Nwanyi Oma [beautiful women] mask, boys initiation, Elugu, Nkporo-Igbo culture, 1930s. Photo: G. I. Jones.

Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield

These surrealists who made the early films were shooting in the dark, they were feeling their way. But they've left behind a sign on a door that said: once this door is opened, in the future, it will make a way for a brand new kind of film. I'm very happy to be a fellow traveler with any of these guys. David Lynch in Arena - Ruth, Roses and Revolver (Feb 20 1987)

Pascal Quignard, "Filodemo de Herculano", La barca silenciosa. Último reino VI

Fred Stein Flower Vendor, Paris 1936

From The Way, 1923-1925, Rosalinde Fuller and Sebastian Droste, multiple exposure

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a poem titled "The Darkening Shelter of Your Heart," featured in Uncollected Poems

If Saint Sebastian was a woman" - Juul Kraijer

Photo by Krass Clement, 1996

a poem ('my darling dear'), tathev simonyan

Rupa Katha Tempera on card

Ivy & Gabriel, by Lula Hyers.

Submitted by Gustav Wasström