Une Saison en Enfer

[witchinghour]

Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

[smokefalls]

Everything about me is an affect of failed language.

Asa Drake, "Toyo" from Maybe the Body

[dreamstars]

Helmut Lang Pre-fall 2026, shot by Priscillia Saada & styled by Monika Tatalovic

[cloth-fabric]

yohji yamamoto - fw00

[art-nimals]

Tyrus Wong (1910 - 2016), Concept art for Walt Disney’s Bambi

[japaneseaesthetics]

“Sculpture in the form of iris growing from a shaped waveform base”. Japan. Artist unknown.

[timotaychalamet]

“Feelings can creep up just like that. I thought I was in control.”

In The Mood For Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar Wai

[linguisten]

“In Greek, whose color lexicon did not stabilize for many centuries, the words most commonly used for blue are glaukos and kyaneos. The latter probably referred originally to a mineral or a metal; it has a foreign root and its meaning often shifted. During the Homeric period it denoted both the bright blue of the iris and the black of funeral garments, but never the blue of the sky or sea. An analysis of Homer’s poetry shows that out of sixty adjectives describing elements and landscapes in the Iliad and Odyssey, only three are color terms, while those evoking light effects are quite numerous. During the classical era, kyaneos meant a dark color: deep blue, violet, brown, and black. In fact, it evokes more the “feeling” of the color than its actual hue. The term glaukos, which existed in the Archaic period and was much used by Homer, can refer to gray, blue, and sometimes even yellow or brown. Rather than denoting a particular color, it expresses the idea of a color’s feebleness or weak concentration. For this reason it is used to describe the color of water, eyes, leaves, or honey.”

— Michel Pastoureau, Blue: The History of a Color (via emmaylor)

[aurora-et-vespertina]

Henry & June (1990)

[les-fleur]

Detective (1985, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

[eirene]

Still Life, Corner of a Table, 1873 Henri Fantin-Latour

[wolfgangamadeusmozartwife]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[7pleiades7]

A Woman Sitting on the Edge of a Bed, (Detail), (19th century) by an unknown artist of the Spanish School, oil on canvas, approximately 168.5 x 125 cm (66.3 x 49.2 in), Private Collection

[milksockets]

'surveillance shoe' by jill magid, 2000 in watched!: surveillance, art + photography - hasselblad foundation

[downyourspine7]

- Auguste Rodin, Paolo et Francesca (scène de l'enfer de Dante)

[oldwinesoul]

Your presence, your warmth, our closeness, our understanding,

// Hélène Cixous, from "Hyperdream," originally published c. July 2006