Calm. Authoritative. R-r-relaxed.

Malbork, Poland

known for: moisture, spores, mite farming

Vincent Price with an armful of cats.

Tatu Gustafsson

Cat Johnston —The God of Hayfever (textiles, epoxy clay, paint, wood, 2024)

As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s 17th-century painting of his name in caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best. More on the unique work here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jan-van-kessel-s-signature-of-caterpillars-and-snakes-1657

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

And entomology too i guess

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

A liddol creeture

Hilma af Klint - Svanen (1914)

replica by alessio carnevali // st. mary magdalene from the santa lucia triptych, painted c1470 by carlo crivelli

the floating head of wisdom