[james-boswell-illustration-deac]

INTERSECT - James Boswell 2015

[drowsydrunk]

COP COPINE MESH ROMEO AND JULIET TOP

[psikonauti]

Zhongwen Yu (Chinese,b.1984)

The memories of you as a flower, 2015

Oil on canvas

[isabelleadjani]

THE UNINVITED dir. Lewis Allen, 1944

[constanzarte]

Eastman Johnson, The Girl I Left Behind Me

[pretentious-hana-deactivated202]

"I'm gay" "I'm straight " ...okay? I'm nothing in my soul if not obsessive

[nobrashfestivity]

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎,  THE GHOST OF KOHADA KOHEIJI, 19th century

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[svilenamaska]

Oil pastel; 6.25 x 6.5”

[teethcollector54]

Monkey posting

[discoursets]

Donna Tartt photographed by Mark Norris at Bennington College, 1986.

[kosmogrl]

The Dark Feels Diffferent in November - Nina MacLaughlin

[exercicedestyle]

Janusz Stanny

[risdoodls]

[elinsdiary]

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[crevicedwelling]

roach and orb

(female Blaptica dubia, orb. 2018)

[lovecrumbss]

you know...

[great-and-small]

I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.