Crystal Myth

Mars. ‘Why should I shy away? If fate is kind or cruel man still must try.’

[henk-heijmans]

Fox at rest, Mont Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Canada, 2012 - by Sam ‘Mont Royal’, Canadian

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao

[dreamstars]

[sonypraystation]

how u doing

im not thinking about it

[metamorphesque]

― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

[text ID: It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four.]

[magdaleneanthony]

in a kill it with your sword kill it with your sword amen mood today

[huariqueje]

Forward - Sirkka Palonen , 2022.

Finnish , b. 1948 -

Etching aquatint

[kateoplis]

Tatiana Blass, Penelope, wife of Odysseus 

[nevver]

Train in vain, Naotaka Hirota

[micahulrichdraws]

The Survivor.

There are now 40 Limited Edition art prints available in my online shop each signed and numbered, while supplies last. ❤️

[zegalba]

Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas (2008)

[keynes-fetlife-mutual]

I'm obsessed with this chair. The artist takes a flimsy hunk of injection-molded plastic that's been cost-cut to hell and back, and insists that we look at it with fresh eyes and understand its beauty. And they went about it in the most labor-intensive way I can think of.

Absolutely nothing about this design is convenient to execute in wood. Every piece is curved, most have compound curves. This is artisan craftsmanship: it's inherently slow, manual, and skilled. Notice, also, that most features of this chair must be thicker and heavier than on the plastic chairs being imitated. Injection-molded chairs can be produced in this shape in a matter of minutes with far less material at very low cost.

If these flowing, organic curves are so beautiful in polished wood, perhaps they are also beautiful in the mass-produced chairs that are far more accessible. Perhaps we should remember to admire designs that succeed enough to become ubiquitous. I don't know about you, but I'll never see injection-molded chairs the same way again.

[zegalba]

[davidhudson]

Nam June Paik, July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006.

[unapologeticmelancholy]

Absence is to love as wind to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before (William Weaver, Trans.)

[noxaeternaetc]

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) drawing of a tiger, next to 14 notes written on a scrap of paper by his friend Frédéric Chopin.

[pigswithwings]

To House and To Haunt

Text Sources: Wikipedia (Haunt), Wikipedia (Haunted House), Wikipedia (Stigmatized Property), Wikipedia (Ghost), Wiktionary (Haunt), Wiktionary (Alone), Wikipedia (Abandonment - Legal), Wikipedia (Ghost town), Wikipedia (Architecture), Wikiquote (Ghosts), Wikiquote (Solitude), Wikiquote (Loneliness)

Image Sources: Putnam House Floor Plans, Plan of House of Sallustius in Mau, JW Keith House (Summer Cottage Floor Plans), PSM V41 D852 Ground Floor Plan of Somesco House at Creil Oise, France, Plan of House of the Surgeon

[lovecrumbss]

oh to have foxes play where I've laid to rest

[comparativetarot]

Four of Swords. Art by Jesse Lonergan, from The Unveiled Tarot.