the world is quiet here

Jusepe de Ribera, The Sense of Touch, 1632. Oil on canvas, 125 x 98 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid

Photographed by Masha Mel for Metal magazine

Jean Mallard (French, b. 1997, Paris, France) - Midsommar, 2024, Paintings: Watercolor on Paper

Unless clowns give you nightmares, decide for yourself whether my collection of vintage clowns is charming or terrifying.

Study of Dante holding the hand of Love (for the painting ‘Dante’s Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice’) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1855-1856.

Donika Kelly, from Bestiary: Poems; “Santa Rosa”

"Very early in my life, it was too late."

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

Some beautiful re-entry footage from NASA. December 2014.

Words by Clementine Von Radics

Maya Angelou working on her bed with a Thesaurus, a Dictionary, and the Holy Bible. (1982)

i like my body when it is with your, e. e. cummings