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[random-brushstrokes]

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (British, 1872–1945) - Time the Physician

[scalesofperception]

The Guardians | Vladimir Antaki

These places are sometimes magical, overloaded with elements, colours and stories, guarded by these characters who are sometimes touching, funny, quirky, and at times frightening. 

The photos that I take are often the only memory that this “Guardian” will have of him/herself in their daily environment. This photo can be the only visual record of the existence of this place, the only photographic memory. People pay less and less attention to their environment. They are always in a hurry, they don’t take the time to spend time with one another. Unfortunately, these places will one day no longer be around. This is one of the reasons that compelled me to want to document these “guardians”.

SoP | Scale of Work

[jetix]

Gouache paintings by Kelly Pringle, 2025

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Large Lamp Handle or Fitting, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle

[moishe-pipick]

[weepingwidar]

Casey Weldon (US-American, 1979) - Curtains (2026)

[miamaimania]

“Canarina’s Gaze” by René Lalique, 1928.

[cosmonautroger]

Tintin

[sakurabreeze]

Marlies Merk Najaka - Kyoto

[nobrashfestivity]

Wassily Kandinsky Morgenstunde distemper and gouache on canvas 38 ¼ x 51 ¼ in. (97 x 130 cm.) Painted in 1907

[herpsandbirds]

Reticulated Worm Snake (Amerotyphlops reticulatus), family Typhlopidae, found in the Amazon Basin of South America

It lives a fossorial life and is mostly found in ant and termite galleries.

photograph by Reptiles4all

[ltwilliammowett]

Scrimhawed shell commemorating the " Great Eastern" and the 1862 World's Fair, c. 1862

[nobrashfestivity]

Ikko Tanaka Colors of Japan Poster 1984

[deathandmysticism]

Pope at the gates of Hell, Antithesis Christi et Antichristi, ca. 1490-1510

[thunderstruck9]

Jacques Majorelle (French, 1886-1962), Assikis Haut Sexaoua, Grand Atlas, 1929. Gouache and mixed media, heightened with silver on board, 24 ¾ x 19 in.

[postcardaday]

Woman with a Daisy, Alphonse Mucha, 1900

[random-brushstrokes]

Mario Puccini (Italian, 1869–1920) - Il Lazzaretto di Livorno