the sacred made personal

An ongoing inquiry into art, history, adornment, and the archaeology of longing.

[fluerdelis]

“You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / through the desert repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.”

— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese (via aranrhod)

[miamlsunshine]

[valenciiaa]

@d_nail_yagan

[worldscoolest]

[7pleiades7]

L'Aurore (Dawn), (Detail), (1881), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 – 1905), oil on canvas, 87.6 in (222.5 cm) x 42.1 in (107 cm), Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham

[pmamtraveller]

Hermann Corrodi - The Birth of Venus

[ejemehi-deactivated20260228]

Alexander McQueen’s “It’s Only a Game” 2005

[shisasan]

Louis Veray, (1885), detail of La Moissoneuse endormie Ph. Gerard Hermand

[sseoulful]

[04k96]

Here

[myfairylily]

Wilanów Palace, Warsaw, Poland | louiseebelpandora 

[multimoulinette]

[thoodleoo]

dont cry. roman ring depicting two mice sharing a snack together, ok?

[silvaris]

Cherry Blossom, Heian Shrine, Kyoto, Japan by Jim Higham

[robin-buckely]

THE MUMMY (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

[worldscoolest]

[pmamtraveller]

Adolfo de Carolis - Amor and Psyche