i had a dream which was not all a dream

Natalia I 27 yrs old I poland

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

Reblog this if you slept with my ex-wife Susan.

Trying to prove a point to my divorce lawyer.

[shintsukidex]

Brooooooo guys look at this candlespine

[achillesinhighheels]

[lascitasdelashoras]

Alex Colville - Departure. 1962

[the-cricket-chirps]

Alex Colville

Hound in Field

1958

[bconker]

Alex Colville - 'Pacific' 1967

[papillonnne]

ANNIE HSIAO-CHING WANG

ARTIST

[ifebrownsugar]

[ifebrownsugar]

[astridflies]

The artist statement is pretty awesome too.

As an artist, Mother is wise in its creation. Mother not only brings forth life but also a continuous matrix of experiences between Mother and Child. Motherhood is a long-term process filled with a myriad of complex emotions. This complexity cannot be solely expressed through saccharine images of Mother and Child, nor by the image of the embodied Mother willingly sacrificing herself for the sake of her children.

All these motherhood stereotypes are to Annie Wang a tedious and inevitable sermon that offers her no solace. It is from this that the original motivation for this series derives. Starting from the first self-portrait taken in 2001, a day before giving birth, she and her son would take a new photo together in front of the previous formal family photo every time they had a common life experience. Thus, the different stages of life and appearances merge to form a single layer.

These Mother and Child photos, create a dialogue compressed into a peculiar space. From this dimension emerges a complicated, fragmented, and diverse recording of motherhood. Annie has been working on this project for 22 years and will continue to do so, using “mise en abyme” as an autobiographical approach to writing history. Hoping that through the accumulation of years and the reappearance of her own motherhood, she can reverse the stereotype that mothers must sacrifice, and thus redefine motherhood. She wants to demonstrate that within the same period of motherhood, the roles of artist and mother can transform from a difficult coexistence into a fusion.

[downwithneocolonialism]

[paradoxius]

This is supposed to be a joke, but this was an actual controversy when the queen was introduced into chess:

15th century gamergate: ‘tis about moral unrighteousness in the folios printed about games on Master Gutenberg’s new movable type press.

[revenantghost]

[ducissatenebrarum]

Two 1,600-year-old lead curse tablets in the Museo Archeologico Civico di Bologna were recently deciphered, and one of them turns out to be the first known surviving curse directed at a Roman senator.

It starts with a dramatic drawing of a snake-headed deity, possibly Hekate, underworld goddess of crossroads, sorcery and necromancy (among other things), with her arms crossed and a star carved over her groin. Although her name is not mentioned, the phrasing of the invocation is similar to other curses that enlist Hekate to their dark cause. The crossed arms symbolize the binding of the deity to the curse. The goddess will remain bound until its terms are fulfilled.

“May Fistus dilute, languish, sink and may all his limbs dissolve …”

[unspokenmantra]

Philosophy - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (1st) Oil on canvas, 100x120cm

Ideal - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (2nd) Oil on canvas

[holespoles]

Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

[nemfrog]

Draw a cat using only straight lines. Design in theory and practice. 1910.

Internet Archive

[henk-heijmans]

The winged swan, ca. 1940 - by Josef Klíma, Czech

[cosmonautroger]

Heather Rios

[oxidi]

the chameleon cake changes its appearance and - more surprisingly - its flavor profile based on its surroundings. most often found in a dessert environment.

[remanence-of-love]

[hildeeveraert]