We Are Accidents

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

[1five1two]

'Icebound River'. Charles Rosen. c. 1915.

[thunderstruck9]

Charles Rosen (American, 1878-1950), Icebound River, c.1915. Oil on canvas, 54 x 64 cm.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[sleepytrain]

Above the Clouds

Enoshima, Japan 2018

[psikonauti]

Michael Halak (Palestinian, b. 1975)

Terra Sancta (Figs), 2022

Oil on wood

[metamorphesque]

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

[fragrantblossoms]

Jeannette Klute. Luna Moth, 1952-1954. Dye imbibition print.

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[koshigurajumy]

Ryuya Tachikawa https://ryuyatachikawa.tumblr.com

[uroko]

Rainy day in Kyoto

[maureen2musings]

Imathia & Pella in Spring, Greece

pc.koublis

[zegalba]

Junji Ito: Layers Of Fear (2017)

[phantastische-illustrationen]

The Three Princesses of Whiteland - The Queen Did Not Know Him, 1914 (Kay Nielsen)

[strawberrycake-angel]

From the “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” collection, illustrated by Kay Nielsen

[thegreatinthesmall-deactivated2]

Sofía Fernández Stenström

[aseaofquotes]

Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

[gnossienne]

King Lear performed in the fire-damaged ruins of Teatro Municipal de Lima (c. 1999), conceived by architect Luis de Longhi

[nevver]

Pale Fire

[radical-revolution]

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”

–George Santayana

art: Picasso’s “Guernica” @ Madrid museum

[weltenwellen]

Chelsea Dingman, from "Not of Longing but of Light"