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perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. we shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. and death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

[slobodyanuk]

Coptic textile, 6th - 10th century.

[fuchinobe]

Visit Original Link

(2001, Lifelike, LL11)

[milksockets]

tony oursler in a sculpture reader: contemporary sculpture since 1980 - glenn harper + twylene moyer (2006)

[crossbills]

Betty Busby, "Diatom Parade" (2022), quilt [52 in x 68 in]

[helicalsymmetry]

cute diy video where the fuck is your respirator

[mawmenny]

[blood-red-roses]

St. Mary Magdalene, Covered by her Hair, c. 1311, Collégiale Notre-Dame d’Ecuis, Eure, France

[weepingwidar]

Koichi Yamamoto (Japanese, 1967) - Touchyukasou (2021)

[pwlanier]

Boucherouite Checkered Shag Rug, Morocco, Mid to Late 20th C. Wool.

Material Culture

[chic-a-gigot]

Le Petit écho de la mode, no. 10, vol. 10, 11 mars 1888, Paris. 3. Papillons en tapisserie. Brun moyen, foncé, très foncé. Jaune très clair, clair, moyen, foncé, très foncé. Rouge moyen, foncé, très foncé. Bleu clair, moyen, foncé. Beige très clair, clair, foncé. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[doncherrycola]

Subraiana, Outlaws for Life, 2026, mohair and alpaca yarn embroidery

[ymutate]

Yu Chengyou (Chinese, born 1953)

Night in a Small Village, 2006

Woodblock print

47.5 x 60 cm

Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford University, UK

[knightotoc]

"I miss Odysseus; my heart is melting. / The suitors want to push me into marriage, but I spin schemes... By day I wove the web, / and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it."

I made this feverish, unwinding loom for @youremysunshine8 's bday, since she is reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

It's made from an old painting frame with the canvas removed. I painted the wood a darker color and hammered in a couple hundred tacks, which I strung with white yarn.

The weaving itself took a long time, since I've never done that before and wasn't using a real loom, though I did make a make-shift heddle from a ruler. The meander is woven in soumak, which means you wrap the weft around each warp instead of just going over-under; this takes a long time but gives it a really cool dimension.

I carved Penelope's hands from chipboard, and painted them the same color as the loom. I wanted to convey the "muscular, firm hand" from Wilson's translation.

[pam3pr]

Addison Gosel’s photos in Athens, University of GA, fall 2001

[keikotsukada]

“やさしくしたい”

“ She wanted to be kind.”

2018

etching, aquatint

image: 362×446㎜

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Humanoid Khepri Scarab from Late Period Egypt, Egyptian Museum of Berlin [573 x 735]

[nobrashfestivity]

Ruth Asawa. Chair. 1965

MoMA

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Can they reveal your psychology? Vintage inkblots.