malevolent moonlight

Ro • INFP "Her body a chalice, a ciborium, a niche of shadows."

[pmamtraveller]

A shepherd in abandoned Sacred Grove, Herbert List, Italy, 1952

[miamaimania]

From the “Shanxi” series (2009) ⦿ Zhang Xiao (张晓) — masked figures in rural China

[vintage-tigre]

Shelley Duvall & Sissy Spacek photographed on the set of 3 Women, 1977

[davidhudson]

Clarice Lispector, December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977.

1946 photo by Bluma Wainer.

[justineportraits]

Pyke Koch Resting Somnambulist 1971

[charnel-grounds]

Marvin Dorwart Cone (1891–1965), “Habitation”

oil on canvas, 1938-39 — source

[diana-andraste]

Der dunkle und der helle Engel (The Dark and the Light Angel), Edgar Ende, 1946

Oil on canvas

[knifeofvenus]

geneva l haley

[reliefofpsyche]

Duane Michals, The old man kills the Minotaur, 1979

[undinesea]

Photo by Anastasia Marchenko

[william-adolphe-bouguereau]

Air De Capri (1923) - Gerda Wegener

[nobrashfestivity]

Leonora Carrington, Cat Woman (La Grande Dame) 1951

[lesgardenias]

“…I shall be there naked with only two wings for cover.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. by Elaine Feinstein, from Bride of Ice: “Desk”

[seule-s]

Jean Cocteau

La Sang d’un Poète, 1930

[malevolentmoonlight]

On the Wings of Shekhinah: Rediscovering Judaism’s Divine Feminine, by Rabbi Leah Novick

Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women, by Chava Weissler

[porcelainapparition]

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “XL,” 100 Love Sonnets (University of Texas Press, 1986)

[derangedrhythms]

[…] he also classified her as a demon, a devil, a fiend, a spirit and a sorceress, descriptions that actually capture her strange essence.

Andrew Wilson, Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted (a letter from Dick Norton to Sylvia Plath, 4th January 1952)