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Charles Aubry - Floral Still Life (Bleeding Hearts), c.1865

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Alexander McQueen | Fall/Winter 2020

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Liquid Bloom - Ceremony of the Heart

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Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate. She must descend into the real womb and expose its secrets and its labyrinths. She must describe it as the city of Fez, with its Arabian Nights gentleness, tranquility and mystery. She must describe the voracious moods, the desires, the worlds contained in each cell of it. For the womb has dreams. It is not as simple as the good earth. I believe at times that man created art out of fear of exploring woman. I believe woman stuttered about herself out of fear of what she had to say. She covered herself with taboos and veils. Man invented a woman to suit his needs. He disposed of her by identifying her with nature and then paraded his contemptuous domination of nature. But woman is not nature only. She is the mermaid with her fish-tail dipped in the unconscious.

Anais Nin on women’s creativity (via tobacco-and-leather)

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Russian Palekh lacquer miniature - The Gray Wolf

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Ninfa Gardens by Monica Iorio

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Bare Castle - Teacake Travels

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RETURN OF THE KING

This chateau was once the property of a noble family. Many of these families fell into poverty and the chateau was sold to a wealthy business man. At the beginning of the 1990′s there was an inferno that reduced the once splendid castle into the ruins that is left today. Nothing remains but the empty carcass of the chateau. But what a carcass it is! Nature has slowly but surely taken back what was once hers, which gives the place an extraordinary look and feel.