Pale As Marble

Gustave Jacquet (detail)

From York Minster, 04/11/14 (own photographs)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Inv. 1993.260

giwrgos livydikos

Sherborne chancel arch and vault by Lawrence OP on Flickr.

Nils Hans Christiansen (Danish, 1850--1922)

The Sleeping Goddess in The Lost Gardens of Heligan in England.

In the 1976 adaptation of Carrie, Brian De Palma based Carrie’s posture and walk at the end of the film after Gustave Moreau’s 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth.

devotion is for acolytes. worthiness for guardians. keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft. they are made keepers because they understand why we are here. why it matters. because they understand the stories.

Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, XVII Marquis of Cerralbo Palacio, Madrid

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)