Tabula Rasa

"—very elliptical."

[inabyssata]

The divine water was the alpha and omega of the process, desperately sought for by the alchemists as the goal of their desire.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Witches preparing for the Sabbath. Andries Stock. Netherlands. 1610

[aqua-regia009]

Who Art Thou, White Face? (1959) - Leonora Carrington

[fish3-14]

[serescosmicos]

Source:

Ojascki

White Dwarf

[immortalfleur]

artworks by Tina Tskhadadze

[fiery-kitty]

The Encounter of Pope Leo the Great with Attila the Hun – Ercole Ferrata, after 1657

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Geistliche Schatzkammer (Ecclesiastical Treasury)

This gilded bronze relief is a reduced version of a monumental marble relief created for the St. Peter’s Basilica between 1646 and 1653. The original work was executed by Alessandro Algardi together with Domenico Guidi and Ercole Ferrata. The scene depicts the legendary meeting in 452 CE between Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun near Mantua, during which the Pope is said to have persuaded Attila to turn back and withdraw from Italy.

Place of origin: Rome

After: Alessandro Algardi (1598, Bologna – 1654, Rome)

Materials and Technique: fire-gilded bronze; frame: bronze, copper, silver

Dimensions: height 98 cm, width 59.5 cm (relief), height 158 cm, width 96 cm (frame)

[worldscoolest]

sergio rossi seashells gladiator cut-out boots

[henk-heijmans]

Brigitte Nielsen (Danish, 1963) with netting, Malibu, California, 1987 - by Herb Ritts (1952 – 2002), American

[illustratus]

Rinaldo, travelling through a Great Forest in Scotland, approaches an Abbey (Orlando Furioso) by Gustave Doré

[sacred-portal]

[gregorycolbert]

People sometimes ask if I am fearful when I am in such close proximity to animals. I can only say that the only way that I’ve been ripped open is by having to leave behind elephant friends, orangutans, cheetahs, caracals, manta rays, or whales. But I would do every hello and goodbye over again as long as it meant that I would have a chance to share their stories. Animals help me to remember all the dreams I thought I had forgotten and remind us to dream as though we will live forever while living as though we shall die today. –Gregory Colbert

[pravedniy-gnev]

[shisasan]

there are meetings that alchemize. we carry each other in unseen ways.

[thomasmartinnutt]

Otto Piene. Nachtsonne (The Moon Upon Which It Depends), 1965

[hvislysettaross777]

Wotans Abschied von Brunhilde

Ferdinand Leeke, around 1893

[derangedrhythms]

From along the corridor the mirror spied on us. We found out (inevitably at such an hour) that there is something unnatural about mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths; from 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius', tr. Jorge Luis Borges & Norman Thomas di Giovanni

[speciesbarocus]

SR465 – TWISTED, by Sruli Recht.