Where Soul Meets Body…

…and time has no meaning.✵

[aurora-et-vespertina]

‘The love that moves the sun and the other stars.’

—Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

[gothredy]

[aurora-et-vespertina]

What a crime against nature to keep me caged this way and not on the throne where I belong.

—Kore, the Queen

[aurora-et-vespertina]

What’s the matter? Afraid you’ll be eaten? That you were never the apex predator?

—Kore, The Jaguar

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Careful. What my mother gives so generously can be just as easily taken away.

—Persephone, The Divine Daughter

[thisflighttonight]

Lupe Velez, Mexican actress (1908-1944)

[xphaiea]

[aurora-et-vespertina]

‘You find the art of politics more engrossing than…than the art of love?’

—The Borgias (2011-2013)

[driflloon]

kavita shetty styled by astrid chu

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1910

Kerry Taylor Auctions

[modernartstudy]

the spirit of the dead keeps watch, 1892 paul gauguin 72cm x 92cm

[orofeaiel]

The Pollinator

[artemisiasea]

“Without poetry, without song, without dance I would not be alive. Nor would any of us. We come from root cultures in which song, poetry, stories, art was something that belonged to all of us. They were not “spectator sports,” as they are mostly in this over-culture. Everyone sang, everyone, danced, made art. It was/is integral to being human. Now it seems reserved for the elite, for those who can afford the time. We need expression to feel connected, not just to our communities but to who we are down deep, past the eyes and the gullet, to the heart and the incredible depth past it.”

— Joy Harjo, Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo 

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Art, like the body, is our first language.

—The Mother Tongue

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Possession and liberation…between the two desire moves. The tension, the Eros, the Thanatos.

—Aphrodisia

[aurora-et-vespertina]

It’s your transition to eternity, not the end.

—The Death Doula

[photoarchive]

Chester Higgins, Book signing for Alice Walker, Brooklyn, 1991

[atoubaa]

A wedding in a refugee camp near Khartoum. (Sudan, 1995) - Pascal Maitre

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Lux Aeterna Luceat Eis.

(Tawila, Sudan)

[pmamtraveller]

"Pearl" by artist Jiatong Liu