DOLL HAUS

a place of collecting thoughts in images for the mental attic

[gentlespike]

Schuco Rabbit Perfume

[nobrashfestivity]

Yayoi Kusama, Island, 1953

more by Yayoi Kusama

[modely-way]

Sunmi “Tail” concept photos

[garadinervi]

Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, 1997 [Gagosian, New York, NY. © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York, NY/ARS, New York]

[artist-maria-prymachenko]

Ivan Gave the Landlord a Ride in his Gig and Fell Inside, 1983, Maria Prymachenko

Medium: gouache,paper

[gravellyrun]

I have always liked image-text relationships. In the 70s there were very interesting things written about photography by Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, John Berger. I felt a direct rapport with things said in these essays. The curse of the writer is that he does not work with tangible matter of any kind, and this is a little device that helps.

W. G. Sebald in a telephone conversation with Kenneth Baker, October 2001 (via gravellyrun)

[electripipedream]

Mike Strouth, Things To Do While Getting Well, 1971

[cherhorowitzhamilton]

us

[itchycoil]

us 

[mistersmokinganddrinking-deacti]

……y’all

[ondoinganevildeedblues]

[theocseason4]

[fymodernflapper]

Victorian Tear Catchers

During the Victorian era, mourners sometimes collected their tears in gold decorated “tear bottles” to keep as a remembrance for the next of kin. It has also been said that the widows would go to the grave on the anniversary of the first year of death and sprinkle the tears on the grave to signify the end of the first year of mourning.

[queernuck]

[thegreatinthesmall-deactivated2]

Kun-Yong Lee ‘Body Drawing 76-2‘, 1976

[milkandheavysugar]

Prince in concert, ca. 1990s

[milkandheavysugar]

“When you talk of black power, you talk of building a movement that will smash everything Western civilization has created.“ - Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael), here with Bobby Seale 

[nevver]

Room with a view, Maria Lassnig

[lamignonette]

Hilma af Klint 

[thunderstruck9]

Diedrick Brackens (American, 1989), opening tombs beneath the heart, 2018. Cotton and acrylic yarn, 72 x 79 in.