petit bourgeois

the dogra magra of it all

[marypickfords]

Lisztomania (Ken Russell, 1975)

[an-ruraiocht]

Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper-development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood.

Irina Dumitrescu, "Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet."

[fuzzbby]

Chen Zishan.

[theworldimworkingtowards]

[glimpseofthegarden]

Stan Brakhage, The garden of earthly delights (1981)

[weltenwellen]

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[runan]

Actias dubernardi female (left) and male (right)

[heavensghost]

[digitised-celluloid]

Arabian Nights. Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1974

[rabbithearteddd]

“September” by Jennifer Michael Hecht

[goldenprairies]

whitemouth, manitoba

[bestiolin]

ishizuka chie

[miamaimania]

“Crossed Intentions” by Miriam Marlene Waldner

[weltenwellen]

Donika Kelly, from “Archaeology”, Bestiary

[389]

Giulio Monteverde “Angel of the Resurrection”, 1882 Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno Genoa / Staglieno Anıtsal Mezarlığı, Cenova

[toiich]

Susan Sontag, On Photography

[dogweapon]

the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world