Lucid Investigations

"I am here, there, and everywhere, following loosely the path blazened by my prolonged and meticulous research!" -Lionel Aggett

[year-of-the-rabid-dog]

|I FEEL ALL WRONG, I DON’T UNDERSTAND|

Artist; Audrey Niffenegger

[psikonauti]

David Hockney (English ,b. 1937)

Dog no. 12, from Dog Wall, 1998

Etching on Somerset paper

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch, Moonlight I, Woodcut, 1896

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[occultartistscollective]

“1838” -Jerry Scott

Secret organization of the Occult from the Victorian Era.  

[nearlya]

Joe Rudko. 2012, found photograph, digital manipulation

Artists on Tumblr

[iamtheocean-deactivated20211023]

[thatdisasterauthor]

Oh this twitter account is a FANTASTIC resource for writing children.

[lucidinvestigations]

[dragonbornee]

“МИР” (PEACE) 🇺🇦🕊

[mythologyofblue]

“The world has told you lies about how small you are.”

— Heather Havrilesky

[yama-bato]

Wohin in Vorarlberg - VOL.AT

Paul Flora 

[yama-bato]

Eine Zeichnung, die Paul Floras hintersinnigen Humor perfekt zum Ausdruck bringt: „Die vom Nasenclub“ aus dem Jahr 2002 : Bild: Nachlassvertretung Paul Flora

A drawing that perfectly expresses Paul Flora’s subtle sense of humor: “The Nose Club” from 2002

[markmcevoy]

Peeping Tom

[heksenwald]

OWLS BY HIERONYMUS BOSCH

altarpiece of the hermits / last judgement / the temptation of saint anthony / garden of earthly delights / crucifixation of saint julia /  saint jerome

[explore-blog]

“We have lost something else in our removal from nature, something more subtle and harder to measure: a groundedness, a feeling of connection to things larger than ourselves, a calm against the frenzied pace of our wired world, a source of creativity… a connection to something ancient and true in this fleeting world, an appreciation of beauty, and an awe of this strange and wonderful cosmos we find ourselves in. All of us feel that unnameable thing when we walk in the woods or sit by the ocean or stare at the heavens on a luminous night. Somehow, we are reconnecting with our ancestral selves and the long chain of lives stretching back to primeval oceans and unblemished land.”

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The poetic physicist Alan Lightman reflects on our withdrawal from (the rest of nature) — a continuation of his soulful essay, penned nearly a decade ago, about science and our spiritual bond with nature.  

Couple with the poetic marine biologist Rachel Carson, writing generations earlier, on the ocean as a lens on our ancestral belonging. 

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A colorful illustration of flowers in a window box from Gartenflora Jahrg.40 (1891).

Full text available here.

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Canaries at a birdbath from Francis Smith’s 1868 book The canary : its varieties, management, and breeding : with portraits of the author’s own birds.

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An illustration from George Dawson Rowley‘s Ornithological miscellany v.2 (1877), captioned “Mother Carey and her chickens.” According to Wikipedia, Mother Carey is a personification of the dangers of the sea. Storm Petrels, birds thought by sailors to be harbingers of storms, are sometimes referred to as “Mother Carey’s chickens”.

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