light and shadow

FKA Frenchtwist The peculiar, the beautiful, the erotic (+snakes) “I am the organizer of the uncertain, the trembling, the half-light, the dreamlike.” Alfred Kubin

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Jean Moral for Diana Slip, c. 1930s

[diana-andraste]

The Red Wolf, Sabin Bălașa, 1994

Oil on canvas

[europeansculpture]

Adolfo Wildt - La Concezione, 1921-1922

Photo: Maria Mulas

[diana-andraste]

Out of the earth you came, Cardwell Higgins, 1930

Pen and ink

[milksockets]

the beauty of fetish - steve diet goedde (1998)

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Mislaid, Pablo Franques Fair

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No es lo que parece (It's not what it looks like), Carmen Calvo, 1999

Collage/photograph

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Fetish, David Lynch & Christian Louboutin, 2007

[diana-andraste]

She and Her Shadow [Jones Beach, NY], Herbert Matter, 1939

[mudwerks]

(via Sea Urchins: 1905 | Shorpy)

Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. “Children’s Delight (Young’s Pier in background).” 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

[diana-andraste]

Gio Colucci, c. 1920s

[charnel-grounds]

Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985)

“The Rising Tide of Darkness,” 1941

source

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I give epitaphs, not autographs. —Vampira

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Petit Sphinx Gardien, Leonor Fini, 1943-44

Oil on canvas

[diana-andraste]

Lost Souls, Gordiart

[regardintemporel]

Emanuela Gasparri

[diana-andraste]

Cover art for RE/Search edition of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, 1989

Photo by Bobby Neel Adams