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she / 28 / virgo

[7pleiades7]

Evening Star (also known as L'Étoile du soir), (Detail), (1848), by Henry Pierre Picou (French, 1824 – 1895), signed 'HENRY PICOU' (lower right), oil on canvas, 54 × 35½ in. (137.2 × 90 cm.), Private Collection

[theoptia]

Louise Glück, from The Wild Iris; “The Wild Iris”

[sacredwhores]

Natalia Motuzko - The Voice of Grass (1992)

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

[beatricecenci]

Alfonso Savini (Italian, 1836-1908)

Giovane donna con liuto

[thefugitivesaint]

Eugène Grasset (1845-1917), 'Three Women & Three Wolves' (Trois Femmes et Trois Loups), 1892

[theoptia]

Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony, & God; “The Glass Essay”

Text ID: Spring opens like a blade

[jetix]

Sara Hagale, 2023-09-06

[oldpaintings]

Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853–1919)

[timunville]

Love the elegant Swedish interiors.

[beatricecenci]

Fede Galizia (Italian, 1578-1630)

Ciliegie in una coppa d’argento con mele selvatiche su un cornicione di pietra e una farfalla fritillaria

[beatricecenci]

Godfried Schalcken (Dutch, 1643-1706)

Kunstbeschouwing bij het licht van een olielamp

[simena]

Konstantin Razumov

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, from “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

[vaninnavaninni]

La Dame aux Camélias (Alexandre Dumas), by Louis Icart (1938)

[birdonwing]

Cindy Baedman’s “Healing Grotto”:

“The healing grotto I created in order to work specifically with children. I had been practising as a healer and counsellor at Bath Natural Health Clinic for some time, as well as at the Cancer Self-help Centre in Bristol with Dr. Mike Weir and felt a need to ‘lighten up’. Hence after eighteen months of work, plus very many loving gifts from sometimes complete strangers, my old coal vault under the pavement of Royal Crescent in Bath, was successfully transformed into a beautiful grotto. Here I not only worked with children but also with adults sent by my local GP in various stages of mental distress such as schizophrenia.”

(source)

[weepingwidar]

Mary Herbert (British, 1988) - Gathering (2023)

[pmamtraveller]

Takato Yamamoto - The Annunciation