Saint George's Dragon

Studies for a Sadist’s Corset, 1957

Who Art Thou, White Face? (1959) - Leonora Carrington

acrylic and ink on wood

From Le martyre des oeuvres d'art. Guerre civile en Espagne (1938).

[ID: July 19, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. END ID]

A Coptic magical spell (late 6th-early 7thc. CE) for obtaining a beautiful singing voice. Written for Severos, son of loanna, it invokes Davithe Eleleth, the seven archangels, and the Holy Father

Anxiety

Edmund Dulac, Pearl of the Elephant

— July 9, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries

"Perhaps Brod’s elision of passages that could be read as homoerotic has ultimately drawn more attention to them than they otherwise would have received—still, this very elision suggests that these passages threatened the image of Kafka that Brod was striving to construct." — from translator's preface

“lolita meets joséphine bonaparte” @ john galliano spring 1992, paris .

A veiled Albanian Muslim woman from Thessaloniki, Greece, 1913. Auguste Leon, Albert Kahn Museum

Greek shepherds, Greece, 1960. Harrison Forman