Ananda

oṃ tryàmbakaṃ yajāmahe sugándhiṃ puṣṭi-várdhanam । urvārukám iva bandhanān mṛtyór mukṣīya mā́ 'mṛ́tāt ।।

[dasa-dasanudasah]

So real

[thecollectibles]

Art by Jakub Rebelka

[pmamtraveller]

Ancient Greek Interior by Jean-Léon Gérôme

[italiasparita]

Il padiglione bulgaro all’Esposizione Universale del 1906, Milano

[lascitasdelashoras]

Felix Vallotton, The Ray, 1900

[peaceinthestorm]

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958, Italian) ~ Vortice di rose - Motivo per tappeto, 1919

[Source: Christie's]

[sasj]

Geometric Shapes / 260813

[bulljumpingfresco]

Alabastron pottery decorated in the Six technique on white ground: youths and horses under a tree. Graffito inscriptions in field. Excavated in Eretria, attributed to the Psiax painter, 520BCE-500BCE

Source: The British Museum

[julian-onderdonk]

Bluebonnets, Late Afternoon, Robert Julian Onderdonk

[70sscifiart]

For Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday, here's a 1971 NASA concept artwork by Roy Gjertson.

[jareckiworld]

Ryu Kitazawa — The City of Light "Ishikawa" (gold leaf, mineral pigment and ink on japanese paper mounted on wood panel, 2026)

[didoofcarthage]

Terracotta plaque with Eurycleia washing Odysseus's feet

Greek (Melian), c. 450 B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[grocki]

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

[grocki]

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there

[japanese-plants]

Lespedeza and Wild Boar screens by Mochizuki Gyokusen (1834-1913) 望月玉泉 「岩藤熊萩野猪図屏風」 明治時代

[nemfrog]

Feline motherhood. April’s kittens. 1940. Clare Turlay Newberry, illus. 

[oilpalette]

Where I Spend My Days, 2026 by Kate Lewis (American, b. 1977); Acrylic on canvas, 25 × 19

[huariqueje]

Where I Spend My Days - Kate Lewis , 2026.

American , b. 1977 -

Acrylic on canvas. , 25 x 19 cm.

[juliaxyn]

Monet's pink paintings.