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[jareckiworld]

Alexis Mata — I Dreamed of a Forest, the Sun Between Mountains, Sunset, Colours Divided (oil on canvas, 2023)

[amaplaka]

°˖𓁹𓁹

[v3l3nomortale]

Rodney Wood

Inamorata’s Memory

[thescholars]

ive had the image of this meme in my head for so long

[itseasytoremember]

(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN

[abstractghosts]

Very cool Tumblr, a truly sublime advertisement for.... The concept of pouring household bleach onto mice, I guess

[ymutate]

Sarah Morgan

'Is it raining where you are? '

collagraph print on paper

[iwilleatyourenglish]

@nojeannomoney

[deathcomequickly]

The Drowned Halls

[johnjacobjinglehymerschmidtt]

[official-graffiti-posts]

official graffiti post

[dearparentheses]

Paul Evans

[conzoop]

malls are dying because they don't have blacksmith, apothecary, alehouse or peddler's

[yaza-con-queso]

We must create dungeons that expand for miles under the earth and malls are the hub areas where warriors gather to venture deep beanth the surface for treasures yet discovered. It's the only way to save the economy.

[conzoop]

👆It's is the only way to save the economy

[adz]

[depsidase]

[abstractghosts]

Oh, tiny deer, we're really in it now...

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[charnel-grounds]

Julia Soboleva, “Fire on Fire”

[kaylmao]

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

[kaylmao]

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lilacchao]

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past

[abstractghosts]

The whole world is a haunted house

[ymutate]

Sabra Field (American, born 1935)

Even The Night Shall Be Light About Me, 1985-86

Archival pigment woodblock print 36.5 x 24.5 inches

Private collection