Carlos Alberto Castellanos (Uruguayan, 1881 - 1945) - Encuentro nocturno

Vampire Hunter D illustration by Yoshitaka Amano.

Sangram Majumdar (Indian, b. Calcutta, India, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - Eclipsed, 2009, Paintings: Oil on Linen

THE CURSE OF QUON GWON (1917) — dir. Marion E. Wong “The first feature film made with an all-Chinese American cast and an all-Chinese American company, The Curse of Quon Gwon was written and directed by Marion E. Wong at her own Mandarin Film Company, based in Oakland, California. Offering an important counterpoint to racist depictions of Asian characters in other films of the period, the film explores western influence on traditional Chinese society and amongst Chinese American communities, suggesting Wong’s keen awareness of early twentieth-century transnational identity, as film scholar Jenny Kwok Wah Lau has observed. Marion, who was in her early twenties at the time, also played the film’s villainess. Nearly all the actors in the movie are family members and friends. The leading role of the heroine was played by Marion’s sister-in-law, Violet Wong. Family members were also involved in other aspects of the film’s production, including costumes and finance. Produced in 1916-1917, The Curse of Quon Gwon is the earliest example of Chinese American independent film known to exist today.”

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), dir. Gore Verbinski

“This shot was one of the first images I had in my head: this lone woman carrying a little camping lamp through the Badlands back to her trusty van. It speaks to the sublimity of nature and the fragility of this woman. These shots came from many takes following Fern through various terrains. The camerawork invoked Fern’s transience, always drifting and moving forward with her.” — Joshua James Richards

But I’m a Cheerleader BTS

https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-tissot/the-apparition-mezzotine-second-state

Oil on board , 30,5 x 40,5 cm.

David Wheeler — The Uncertainty of Being Certain in Uncertain Times (Vision in Venice I)   [pencil on paper, 2020]

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 187v

Detail of Jean Baptiste Clésinger’s Cléopâtre Mourante (The Dying Cleopatra), dated to 1861. Marble. Source: Sotheby’s.

Medium: watercolor

In a Roman Osteria (1866) - Carl Bloch

Edvard Munch, Kiss of Death, 1899, Lithograph on cream woven paper

Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. It’s the only way to become who you were meant to be.