bright with shipwrecked stars

anna reading: the blue machine

[suhaylah]

Another one bites the dust. Farewell book IV, onto the next! Suhaylah H.   July 2016

[hildeeveraert]

[jamabushi]

National Geographic | May 1983

[lordearthistory]

Prometheus Bound by Thomas Cole // “Perfect Places” by Lorde

[chaya-k-deactivated20190201]

[jinxproof]

‘Fight Club’ | © Irving Pen Vogue US (September 2006)

[arsantiquis]

Clouds by Frederic Edwin Church part II.

[finita--la--commedia]

“Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side.”

— Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), from “Answers to Letters”, in: “The Great Enigma”, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton

[jetix]

Cyanotype printed shells barfootk_art on ig

[valarinde]

“It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripen and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.”

THE KNIGHT OF THE CART, Le Morte d’Arthur

[huariqueje]

Upside Down . Pompon (Detail) - Olivier Neuray , 2025.

Belgian , b. 1962 -

Oil on panel

[306saint]

trash tarot deck (22/78)

[nobrashfestivity]

Mori Yoshitoshi, Year end Market (暮の市),1957

[calleido]

trotternish ridge, isle of skye, scotland

[zegalba]

Rachel Rector: 'Teabag Cyanotypes' (2021)

[brokenimageswherethesunbeats-de]

A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumptions requires the unlimited production and consumption of images. - Susan Sontag, On Photography

[huariqueje]

Happy Place - Line Holtegaard , 2024.

Danish , b, 1980 -

Oil and acrylic on canvas , 60 x 70 cm.