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Egg tempera and handmade gesso on panel , 39 1/2 x 48 in. 100 x 122 cm.

Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

Selinum Palustre - Mary Delany - 1775 - via The British Museum

Photo by Matthieu Paley

- lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

 National Trust/Stephen Robson

Mermaid amulet in silver from Naples, Italy; before 1880. The amulet represents a twin tailed siren figure; they were suspended in the window or worn by women and used as jingles

Oil on canvas , 64  x 80 cm.

Oil on panel , 12 x 9 cm.

Oil , 48 x 30 in.

Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley, from "Marina of the Rocks,"

Residenza Vignale in Milan

— James Baldwin, from “Take Me to the Water,” in No Name in the Street (via firstfullmoon)

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