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detail, ink and color on silk, 1851

Larry Fink, The Beats, 1958

Art nouveau tiara, ca. 1900, by Paul Lienard of Paris. Gold, carved horn, pearls, diamond pistils.

butterflies sucking fresh blood from a sock

Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness, New Mexico

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Laura Gilpin - Hardbelly’s Granddaughter, 1933,  printed after 1933

Vito Basso by Brian Jamie

1978 - Naples by Ferdinando Scianna

bubblegum: zo1fun by bigwang13

“Who knows whether this tumult of triangles inscribed in stone, first brought about by nature and then invented by art, does not contain one of the secret cyphers of the universe?  At such moments it seems to me I see why these images exert such a powerful fascination over the mind; I seem to detect the underlying reasons for the unwearying and irrational zeal that makes man give a meaning to all appearances devoid of it, to look for parallels everywhere, and to create them where they do not already exist. I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax.” –Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones

Teorema (1968) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (Masahiro Shinoda, 1975)

amber valletta by steven meisel for vogue italia may 1999