We're all young and naive still

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…”

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Xiao Chen 蕭晨 (c. 1625-c.1715), Valley and Mountains, after Zhao Boju, late 17th-early 18th century, ink and colour on silk, Princeton University Art Museum.

In this painting Xiao Chen refers back to the painter Zhao Boju (c. 1120–c. 1162), who was known for working in the blue-green mode that was practiced as early as the Tang dynasty (618–907). The flatness of painted landforms and the blue-green coloration are archaic allusions to the realm of the immortals. The use of dazzling mineral pigments not only evokes fantasy but also brings into the painting alchemical elements associated with elixirs for immortality. In this way, the painting is not just a representation of natural scenery but also an embodiment of magical energies.

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The baby swans at the Old Summer Palace fell asleep on their parents’ backs (cr 展扇轻摇)

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@gothiccharmschool goth swan and baby!!!!

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I know I am a mother by L.E.Bowman.Poetry , from their book SHAPESHIFTER.

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Saudi Arabia, Diriyah

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Everything I’ve Ever Let Go Of Has Claw Marks On It

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Georges Fouquet, pendant in the form of a wisteria branch, 1908-10, Paris Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

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It was a global problem

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Sergey Kuznetsov, Sunset, n.d.