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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words." ~T. S. Eliot

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HM Queen Elizabeth II looking at a Ceylonese mask. Photograph by the Associated Press Ltd., 1962.

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A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.

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HM Queen Elizabeth II with E.A. Underwood. Photograph by the Associated Press Ltd., 1962

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Central Terre Haute

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Terre Haute, Indiana map

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Map of Prairieton Township (Vigo County, Indiana)

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Untitled, 1971-1974, Los-Alamos 

 William Eggleston 

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Untitled Memphis, Tennessee-c.1971  

William Eggleston 

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Untitled 1970-1973 (Red-Car) 

 William Eggleston

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The mecha genre has fascinated me for decades, from Gundam Wing to Neon Genesis Evangelion to Pacific Rim. Not just because of the large, cool robots, but because of what they are made to represent: the outsized devastation humanity can wreak; the way we instrumentalize the innocent to perpetuate war; the fragility and resilience of the human body writ large.

editor Carl Engle-Laird on Emma Mieko Candon ‘s novel The Archive Undying

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Accidental Tarot #1

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Accidental Tarot #2

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Accidental Tarot #3

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Konstantin Rotov

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Lenin Lives On, by Konstantin Rotov (1924)

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Konstantin Rotov

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“Exclamation Point” by A. Raskin and M. Slobodsky. Cover art by K. Rotov (USSR, 1939)

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Love the Herrimanesque vibe of this Soviet book cover by Konstantin Rotov. The flower print matches and yet contrasts perfectly.