grotesque

The color of the extraordinary.

[zegalba]

[neshamama]

photos of palestinian artist duniyana al-amour's room, where she was killed by israeli strike at the age of 22.

adnan, father of duniyana al-amour (2000-2022), sits among her drawings in her damaged room which was hit by an israeli strike, east of khan yunis, in the southern gaza strip, monday, august 10, 2022. al-amour's drawings in her damaged room after shrapnel tore through her bedroom during Israel's surprise opening salvo, hours before militants fired any rockets.

“i am not making anything amazing. i am merely trying, amidst this isolation, to make life bearable.” - al-amour on her work

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Stefanie Moshammer

[zegalba]

[low-country]

Frans Floris - Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail, 1554)

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[foxeia]

Ebony Shield

[blackhoody]

[urbanehood]

[nemfrog]

"Toad development in a single season." The nature-study review. April 1919.

Internet Archive

[whattt07]

[vintagewildlife]

Roman snail ovipositing By: Hans Pfletschinger From: Natural History Magazine 1977

[honeywine0]

[just-art]

[baddreamland]

“Ottoman drugs containing rhubarb, cinnamon, mastic gum, Chinese turmeric, amber, musk, balm of Gilead, Meccan myrrh, white pepper, opium, rose water, cast into moulds & inscribed with healing incantations, 16C“

‡ Yasmine Seale

[bringiton]

🎄 25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS → DAY SIXTEEN 🎄 THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), dir. Henry Selick "Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!"