PARADISE AROUND THE CORNER

Always look at the world with crooked eyes. — Mies van der Rohe

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blind alley ~ park ki pyung

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Rosalía for The Fader June 2019 by Camila Falquez.

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fkatwigs: custom clothing by @edmarler photo: @4n4k4

[somebodytodiefor]

FKA Twigs Live Performance x #ValentinoMenFW20

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Guido Reni (1575-1642) “Penitent Magdalene” (1635) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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The Mourning Mary Magdalene, Colijn de Coter, ca. 1500-04

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mary-lynne straton

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Our Lady Speaks

"There is a world behind the world you see, although it lies revealed and open right before you. The world you see is like the reflection on the inside of a bubble that shows you nothing but yourself. It reveals to you what you think, what you value, what you believe to be true.

But just beyond that world is My world—the world that sustains you, the world that birthed you, the world that you return to, and the world that you can never leave. That world is the real world. The image you see reflected in the bubble is the world that you have made.

It takes a single pin to pop that bubble for anyone. It vanishes at death and you are liberated from it for a time. But your people have been born into it again and again, and the time is coming when it shall be popped for the living while they are alive.

At that time, some will say, ‘I cannot breathe in this world. I have no place in it.’ Others will say, ‘This is the end.’ And still others will say, ‘All that we had is lost and gone forever. What shall we do? How shall we live?’

But there will be those who, on the advent of that world, say in the depths of their hearts: ‘This is what I always knew to be true. This world is my Mother. There is no other. At last I have found my home.'"

https://wayoftherose.org/2020/09/16/our-lady-speaks-september-16-2020/

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https://catherinebrooksprojects.com/artwork/2879788_Speak_Sweetly

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Giovanni Dupré Saffo (by Adrian Overo)

Edited by JohnnyBravo20

[thewinedarksea]

I used to weave crowns

Sappho, fragment 125, tr. by Anne Carson

[thelogicofthetrance]

Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now – no, never quite like this.

~ Sappho

Views of Galleria Borghese, Rome

[mangodebango]

Angela Davis, Santa Clara County Jail, California, 27th December, 1971.

[lelaid]

Madonna by JR for The New York Times Magazine, June 2019

[artsyloch]

Alexander Calder | Red Sumac 

sheet metal, wire, and paint 45 by 67 by 13 in. 114.3 by 170.2 by 33 cm. executed in 1972

[themindmovement]

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

[1five1two]

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Herman Hesse