[clawmarks]

Ames' book of flourishes - Ames, Daniel, T. - 1890 - via Internet Archive

[zielenadel]

Kinke Kooi, Visit (4) - 2020

[crescend0ll5555]

visionaire issue n°26 ‘fantasy’

ph by bettina komenda style by desiree heiss

[mybeingthere]

Birds by KIKI SMITH (b. 1954, Germany)

Kiki Smith was raised Catholic and draws heavily on traditional bird symbolism. She uses birds—particularly doves, which represent peace, the Holy Ghost, and freedom—to examine spirituality and mortality.

She kept birds as a child for over a decade. This lifelong affection evolved into a desire to incorporate animals into her art to represent our shared instincts, movement, and vulnerability.

Her process is deeply tactile. She often creates bird reliefs and sculptures using materials like bronze, aluminum, and silver. She views the natural behavior of birds as its own form of environmental "technology"—using the things around them to flourish and build architecture.

https://www.pacegallery.com/.../a-bird-is-technology-in.../

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

"Shakespeare - Richard III" — David Gentleman (1976)

[victusinveritas]

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

[wordsforyoungmen]

[blushingbloom]

horse bridle made from watsonia leaves by Hannah Thornhill

[iamasalmon]

the thing about fiber art that nobody tells you about is that every single kind of fiber art is a gateway drug to other kinds of fiber art.

[lamignonette]

[ortut]

Joe L’Estrange - Old Cat Walking (oil on board), 2007

[shyrabbit69]

[jinxproof]

Björk, 1994 | © David Strick

[almoststardust]

The Westbury Horse, 1939 by Eric Ravilious

Train Landscape, 1940 by Eric Ravilious

[s1ck0]

Sun Pei-Mao, “Noisy Dreamland” 2014

[joeinct]

Photo by Anthony Barboza, 1970s

[lamignonette]