Incomplete Graces

Words. Style. Flowers. Home. A database of inspirations.

[memories-of-ancients]

Glass bead necklace, Roman (Eastern Mediterranean), 1st century AD

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

[holespoles]

Asako Yoshihama

🐞

吉濱あさこ

[museum-of-artifacts]

Mesopotamian Gold & Ruby Seal Ring. 2000 BC

[polkadotmotmot]

Saskia Rem Brandt - Illusion of Perfection, 2023 - Oil on canvas

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

[beguines]

Carl Phillips, In the Blood

[dk-thrive]

"You have dogs within you, you must become their master. If you find the animal that is within you, you can understand it. It is not a matter of scolding the animal, it is part of you. You must get to know its nature: it barks, it attacks; but if you understand it, and love it, it will be pleased to serve you, it will not have to be on the defensive, because it will feel loved, understood and it will love you." 

~ G.I. Gurdjieff (as recalled reported by Solange Claustres) in "Becoming Conscious with G.I. Gurdjieff. Translated by Dawn Wakefield and Paul Richardson. (Eureka Editions, 2005).

[soleilinfini]

mary oliver, staying alive

[admitier]

[ID: "And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Live it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes." End ID.]

[postcard-from-the-past]

British vintage postcard, mailed in 1909

[aesthetic-stories]

[laclefdescoeurs]

Peonies, 1882, Shibata Zeshin

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[fashion-choices]

Moschino | Fall/Winter 2022 RTW MFW

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

The interior of Muhammad Shah’s Royal Tent, Qajar Empire, 1834–1848. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art [2592x3456]

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/fguw2o/the_interior_of_muhammad_shahs_royal_tent_qajar/

[kaalbela]

A block printed cotton shawl embroidered with silk and mirror work, Sindh, modern-day Pakistan, mid 20th century. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Via Jordan Quill

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

‘What Use is Poetry?’ Meena Alexander, 2013

[emmaklee]

quartz with hematite inclusions