from gut to ground; a most hellish truth

Abbott Fuller Graves “Doorway and Garden” (c. 1900)

Once Upon a Dream by Lana Del Rey except you’re on a nightly jog along the forest path when you hear it - and the music grows closer as you simply continue jogging, but so does something else. A light. And when you reach that light, it’s a doorway that you feel deeply compelled to walk through.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus with detail - 1888

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, A Coign of Vantage - 1895

Joseph Bail, Still Life - 1887

Vincent Van Gogh Series, Sunflowers, 1888-1889

cyndi, bb, we love you but it’s twenty nineteen and we need to rest 

Sky details in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus with detail - 1888

Thomas Francis Dicksee, Miranda, detail - 1895

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spring, details - 1894

Pierre Auguste Cot, The Storm - 1880

Armand Point, detail, Portrait de Madame Berthelot, 1895.