AUTOCHROMES

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i do plan on bringing this back to life soon, i just lose the motivation for things quickly...

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Glory be to God for dappled things

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Pied Beauty

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Jacob Olie Jr. / Detail from a Self-portrait in the serre, c. 1922-1930

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I'd rather stay in bed wearing fur, watching documentaries about Dior.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico / My Gift

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Jacob Olie Jr. / Detail of a Portrait of Fifi, in a wooden chair, c. 1910-1927

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my past is a grave reflected in mirrored sunglasses

Beth Bachmann / International Rose Test Garden

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 Jacob Olie Jr / Tini and Fifi in the guest room, c. 1909-1910

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stars rise often and go out again (where does this tenderness come from?)

Marina Tsvetaeva / Where Does This Tenderness Come From?

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Jules Gervais-Courtellemont / Children gather supplies for an Arab dinner in Algeria, 1928

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We'll swim in milk and honey till we drown.

Elinor Wylie / Wild Peaches

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Jules Gervais-Courtellemont / Debutantes, 1914

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We'll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, You'll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown

Elinor Wylie / Wild Peaches

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Jules Gervais-Courtellemont / Egypt, 1910

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His heart is like the moon

Wen T’ing-Yün / A Song of Chang Ching-Yüan Picking Lotus Flowers

tr. William R. Schultz

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Jules Gervais-Courtellemont / French Soldiers

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Come on, Pretty Baby Our souls can’t be crushed

Essex Hemphill / Black Beans

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Jules Gervais-Courtellemont / The Girls Beneath the Tile