[jacobvanloon]

The Hazard, Barrier to Entry Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 8x10″ 2019

[olaloevera]

something about the moon is enchanting...

[sunlilys]

caspar david friedrich. winter landscape, 1811.

[wormdrool-deactivated20180314]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Tyrus Wong’s concept art for Bambi (1942)

[themakeupbrush]

Zimmermann Fall 2023

[sacredwhores]

Tod Browning - Dracula (1931)

[newfleshceleste]

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

— Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter, Geraldine (via thoughtsfromnora)

[glowpathy]

Nathan Bussiere

[fymodernflapper]

Art noveau bat chandelier. Austria, 1900.

[newfleshceleste]

“Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man-a woman who was ‘one-in-herself.’ The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past…, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus-they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chastity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle-‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’ - the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshiped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.”

— Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother - Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth  (via fragilis)

[dadalux]

Jacek Jędral - Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm

[aperfumedpearl]

18th century swan wine cooler

[crumbargento]

Wuthering Heights - William Wyler - 1939 - USA

[grundoonmgnx]

David Linneweh, Temporal (7-Eleven), 2014 

Transfer, graphite, and oil on panel, 10 x 15.75  in

[loumargi]

Fantasia - Joan Brull i Vinyoles 1863-1912

Twilight Painting by Joan Brull i Vinyoles

[pada-viya]

“The present is not marked off from a past that it has replaced or a future that will, in turn, replace it; it rather gathers the past and future into itself, like refractions in a crystal ball.”

— Tim Ingold from “The Temporality of the Landscape,” World Archaeology (vol. 25, no. 2)