dark red sky

ᵃ ᶠᵃⁿᵗᵃˢʸ ᵘⁿᵏⁿᵒʷⁿ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵉ

Kumortuli is an artisans' neighbourhood in Kolkata in India, best known for its prowess in sculptures. Most of the clay idols used in hindu festivals throughout the city are made here. I visited a few days before Durga Puja, so here are some of the photos I was happy with.

Book Cover from “Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales" (Selected & illustrated by Charles W. Stewart (1997)

Monument to Mozart by Hermann Hossaeus

Myrto It is of you, divine enchantress, I am thinking, Myrto, Burning with a thousand fires at haughty Posilipo, Of your forehead flowing with an Oriental glare, Of the black grapes mixed with the gold of your hair. From your cup also I drank to intoxication, And from the furtive lightning of your smiling eyes, While I was seen praying at the feet of Iacchus, For the Muse has made me one of Greece’s sons. Over there the volcano has re-opened, and I know It is because yesterday you touched it with your nimble toe, And suddenly the horizon was covered with ashes. Since a Norman Duke shattered your gods of clay, Evermore beneath the branches of Virgil’s laurel, The pale hydrangea mingles with the green myrtle! Gerard de Nerval La jeune tarentine (1871) by Alexandre Schoenewerk (1820-1885) Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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By Misha Frid

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The Lovers by Jef Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux (1852-1908)

Barbie Ferreira's shoes from the premiere of Faces of Death

by Betony Vernon

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

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