Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket 1875 Oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts Ed. Orig. (Ed. Lic.: CC0 1.0)

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Shop Window, 1894 by Isaac Israels (Dutch, 1865–1934)

Lidia Timoshenko, Tatiana and Onegin, date unknown

“I guess I’m talking about it because it happened.” (Some thoughts on women & wounded-ness & writing)

Baron Arild Rosenkrantz - In the Heart of the Forest,  1912

Detail: View of Amsterdam from the scaffolding surrounding the tower of Amsterdam’s new Town Hall, 1665-1670, by Jacob Ruisdael.

Titantic (2018)

Size: 86x70.5 cm Medium: oil

Men are very fragile. They can get crushed down if you assert yourself in any way. The Love Witch (2016) dir. Anna Biller