[donttakethering]

isabelle adjani on the set of possession (1981).

original photographer unknown, black & white edit by me

[peaceinthestorm]

Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938, Norwegian) ~ Thinka og Inger Johanne duret katekismus i lysthuset, 1894

[Source: nasjonalmuseet.no]

[fragrantblossoms]

Joseph Cornell. Series of Jeanne Eagels, 1963. Collage.

[finita--la--commedia]

“If only you could taste your nothingness, if you could find repose in your nothingness, and if this nothingness would not be a kind of being and not really death either. It’s so hard not to exist any more, not to be something any more. Real suffering is to feel the movement of thought within oneself. But when thought is a fixed point, it is certainly not a suffering. I am at the point where I no longer touch life, but with all the appetites still within me, and the insistent titillation of being. I have nothing to do now but make myself over.”

— Antonin Artaud, from “The Nerve Meter”, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws

[funeral]

The little girl in Dark Spring ends up dissociated from her own physical self. Imagining herself at the cemetery, with people admiring the beauty of her appearance, "she" fantasizes her own survival as if she were a spirit, unfazed by the reality of matter. At the same time, paradoxically, "she" seeks to affirm the materiality of her body by confronting its resistance at its most extreme, that is, through self-destruction.

Caroline Rupprecht, Introduction to Dark Spring by Unica Zürn

[thifiell]

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[charnel-grounds]

Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976) - Birth from the Chrysalis, 1976

source

[gouged-doll]

sam szafran, 1975

[postpunkindustrial]

Mayuko Hino / C.C.C.C. - The Broken Life Festival in Tapei, September 9, 1995

[theoptia]

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

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fOnTe . kissenschlacht 

[aifol]

Phenomena of Materialisation (1920) by Baron Albert Von Schrenck Notzing, Fig. 172.  Author’s flashlight photographs of February 15, 1913.

[horrorkunst]

[destinationtokyo3]

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[anideaappears]

Arizona Dream (1993), directed by Emir Kusturica

“Back to the dream.”

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[grupaok]

Martha Graham and her dance troupe performing Heretic: “A blockade of puritans confront an outcast…” Photo by Soichi Sunami, 1928.

[realhumanbaby]