my flaws burn

25 | midwest femme

[9e978e]

[gouged-doll]

vintage nursing photobooks, 1981

[lascitasdelashoras]

Ján Cifra - Bratislava

[gacougnol]

Bruce Rae

Still Life

[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[thomasmartinnutt]

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Paramount, Oakland, 1992

[arsvitaest-deactivated20260111]

Rose Espinosa, Little Silver, 2018, oil on board

[toyastales]

René Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899.

[miamaimania]

“Canarina’s Gaze” by René Lalique, 1928.

[mass-4-shut-ins]

Pictures I took of a burning building at midnight years ago 

[time-incantation]

"I am your half”

Antique pendant of Adam and Eve

[limitedmedicine]

【Rippi/リッピ】

fuzzy bugs series

w140×h130xd90mm

@shiba0607

[miamaimania]

“Black Snake” (2002) ∿ William E. Nutt ◆ Polished marble, raw limestone

[balzog]

[deathandmysticism]

Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy, 1916

[womansart]

Sandrine Pelletier, White snake (2007), created using lace making techniques

[all--hail--venus]

Caryatid Mirror with Aphrodite

Greek (Artist)

ca. 460 BC (Classical)

bronze

(Ancient Greece)

A graceful female figure serves as a "caryatid," or human support, for a mirror. The figure's pose, demure gestures, and simple drapery characterize the quiet elegance of the Early Classical style. The presence of the winged Eros figures (representing the god of love) above suggests that the maiden is a bride or perhaps Aphrodite herself. The siren at the top of the disk recalls the irresistible allure of these mythical bird-women.