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Blooming lava field, 2013-09-26

[songs-of-the-east]

Girl dressed as a Motanka - Oksana Onysko

The Motanka is a traditional doll used as an amulet in Ukrainian culture, dating back thousands of years possibly to the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture. It represents the unity between ones family and ancestors - once also believed to be a vessel of the ancestors of the person who possessed it. It was also viewed as a tool that helped protect a person from the evil eye and curses, and that the person creating it could project powers into it based on what they were thinking at the time. The Motanka is created faceless with a cross covering its head, as Ukrainian folk belief claimed that etching a face onto it could drain a living spirit into it.

[nobrashfestivity]

National Geographic Specials, The Hidden World of Insects, 1966

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Botond Keresztesi, 2018, acrylic & airbrush on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

[thelostcanyon]

Petroglyphs at the cliff dwellings in Red Canyon, Palatki Heritage Site, Arizona.

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[sealskinparka]

[vampilllia]

water__corpse

[nandycastillo]

Ingres - Detalle del baño turco

[oldmanpeace]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jackie Bieber (American, b. 2000, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - 1: Davinci’s Daughter 2: Unknown, Hand Painted Buzzcuts, Photography

[autodiscipline]

Spreepark, Berlin, Germany

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by Andy Goldsworthy

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

19th century books with marbled page edges 

[forest-woman]

[butterflycharms]

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art