NO DELIGHT

In this garden (images and ideas for as-yet unnamed project)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from Selections; “My Most Intimate Life in Ruins,”

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Be silent. Be silent. Don’t talk to people, don’t lift the veil from your heart. All the people on earth — please understand! — are not worth one single word.

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, tr. by Simon Karlinsky, from “Admonition,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[bao-t-nguyen]

Plastic Death clear plastic cigarette case. 

Eclipse + Afterlife + Grave + Waltz

[speciesbarocus]

Simon Marmion - Man of Sorrows (c. 1460). Detail.

[suitupweird]

[detailedart]

Tapestry of sculptures, II.

[newsprezzatura]

New Sprezzatura

[liquidzmooth-deactivated2019122]

« Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. »

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[spatula]

(via Takt Studio shades its drawing pavilion with corrugated plastic shutters)

[deathandmysticism]

Albertus of Orlamünde, Philosophia Pauperum, 1496

[deathandmysticism]

Our New Way round the World, 1869

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Allegory of Death (ca. 1577-1586 - Etching) - Nicolas Beatrizet

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Danse Macabre (Early 18th Century / Ivory - h/13cm) - Origin: Southern Germany by Unknown

[queeenpersephone]

@didoeas requested ▻ ereshkigal, babylonian queen of the dead

[gnossienne]

Vangelis Kyris, “Vanity” from Sins (2005)

[oddorch]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUWvT7eF6w6/

[seeliequeene]

Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and her Maid (detail), Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1625