empty.threats

goodreads // last.fm

[amare-habeo]

Sanam Khatibi (Iranian, 1979)

A small token of my affection, 2019

Oil on panel, 15 x 20 cm

[huariqueje]

Winter city   -   Elina Luukanen, 1998.

Finnish,b.1941-

Colour etching,  6/60,  24,5 x 19,5 cm.

[sovietpostcards]

Raisa Guseva “Sunny Side Up” (1985)

[rubenista]

René-Antoine Houasse, Apollo pursuing Daphne (detail), 1677

[loumargi]

Aleksandra Waliszewska

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statue of Artemis.

Fresco from Pompeii (VI. 17. 10)

Date: 50—1 B.C.

Provenance: Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXIX (Napoli, Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli, Sala LXIX)

[amare-habeo]

Sanyu (Chang Yu) (Chinese, 1901-1966) 

Flowerpot, N/D

Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm.

[emptythreats]

Can't believe I came on tumblr for 5 minutes to look up Dark Crystal AOR fan art, like a fool, only to learn about a Skeksis fetish that people have?!

[emptythreats]

Some books I liked in 2018:

Circe by Madeline Miller Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras The Likeness by Tana French Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin – especially The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu

Honorable mention: Moby Dick

Non-fiction: The Marx-Engels Reader The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Women, Resistance and Revolution by Sheila Rowbotham

[emptythreats]

Reading goals for 2018: - more nonfiction - more Slovene lit - more commie lit - finally read Moby Dick

[emptythreats]

Accomplished all four, although still need to read more Slovene lit!

[radstudies]

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917) - The Gorgon, 1891

[twirld]

The Young Martyr (detail, 1856) Paul Delaroche

[the-cinder-fields]

Circe transforms Odysseus’ men into swine in Homer’s Odyssey

[loumargi]

Cat and Fly, Muramasa Kudo

[loumargi]

Evgeny Mukovnin 1976 - Russian Figurative painter

[inland-delta]

Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior, Young Woman Looking Back, 1904

[tincanforest]