[neopatra]

[lunatickling-blog]

Häxan (Witchcraft through the Ages, 1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Detail from Heart Throb by David M. Bowers (1956- )

[vasilyt]

Costanza Costamagna

[sticksnails]

[europeansculpture]

Ursula Stock - Schnur-Gerüst, 1995

Bronze

[weusedtobegiants]

I want to go back to the beginning. We all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. But I’m wrong.

Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved

[julykings]

keeping watch

[homoidiotic]

International Ms. Leather 1990

[goreprofonde]

Let me tell you a story: for ages, I have been holding on to our silence,                    a child learning to move his forsaken hands, to palm  the walls of this godless place. I am        your animal, a heart trashing the air everywhere & nowhere, Almost a torch—

- Michael Wasson, Swallowed Prayers as Creation.

[milksockets]

'holding power,' 1974-5 in allen jones: sheer magic - marco livingstone (1979)

[b4rfbrain]

[milksockets]

selfridges ad 1973 in museo de la moda - edited by kate moss (2019)

[marypickfords]

Visions of Ecstasy (Nigel Wingrove, 1989)

[philomena-famulok]

©Philomena Famulok

A sad memory (mixed media, 2023)

[twisted-w0rds-deactivated202411]

Ghost opera

[thelonerforlife]

Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1967)

[rotgospels]

“In memorizing the poems I loved, I “ate” them in a way. I breathed as the poet breathed to recite the words: someone else’s suffering and passion enters your body to transform you, partly by joining you to others in a saving circle.”

— Mary Karr, ‘Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer’