and we'll go again

Black mantilla, c. 1910

Failed to sell Bonhams, New York, 20 May 2021.

i just realised ive unintentionally been using the same green mug for like every post in the past two months...oops.

[my copies of the six of crows duology finally arrived so I've started reading them!! loving these characters<3]

The sitter, Madame Mathilde Loeser, was painted by Brett at the request of her husband Frederick Loeser. However, it is said that several artists wished to paint her, for her ‘wild bush of grey hair and her strange and picturesque beauty’. The wing of the dove echoes the curved outline of the sitter’s skirt, and the dove motif is repeated in the mosaic brooch on her shoulder. cr: tate.org.uk

| la basilique notre-dame de fourvière, lyon |

slowly finding things to live in the little cubbies in my desk. soon I'll start studying for the physics GRE, or I'll at least tell myself that. in the meantime I've been writing letters to my friends.

excelsior. onward and upward

18.08.20 / the sun rising on my all-nighter. i’ve got a list of errands to run today but after today, everything should be ironed out. just need to get through today!! hbu? i hope you’re doing okay. take care ♡

florence, italy ⋅ ph. daniel pérez

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Sisters by Elvira Leone

Ada Limón, from The Carrying; “Sometimes I think my body leaves a shape in the air”

Mary Oliver, from “I Worried”, Devotions

Ellen Bass, ‘The Thing Is’