self-historicizing

Pia N. my tongue and its untwisting

[fordarkmornings]

Summer Night, 1890. Winslow Homer. 

Dans på stranden, 1900. Edvard Munch. 

[cma-islamic-art]

Large Dish with Artichokes, c. 1535-1540, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic Art

During the 1500s ceramic vessels and tiles produced in Iznik for the Ottoman court in Istanbul represented the finest Islamic ceramics. This dish is a spectacular example with its exuberant design and execution of artichokes. It was made during the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (1520-66), a high point of Ottoman art. Size: Diameter: 36.4 cm (14 5/16 in.); Overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.) Medium: fritware with underglaze-painted design

https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.17

[driverdaily]

Adam Driver behind the scenes of Marriage Story (2019)

[sweaty-toothed]

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(the most gorgeous crooked face on planet earth. tenderness and intensity both.)

[sweaty-toothed]

This is the conviction I carry into the next year. I am ready for all of it— to seek, to burn, to become.

[sweaty-toothed]

copenhagen fancies

[januaryhoney]

wild geese, mary oliver / the night café, vincent van gogh / someday i’ll love ocean vuong, ocean vuong

[the-eternal-moonshine]

[writingdotcoffee]

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Gustave Flaubert (via writingdotcoffee)

[sweaty-toothed]

Father and Son (2018) Flight of the Conchords

Will I fall in love and will it be forever?

Or will she leave me one day for someone like Trevor?

Well, you just never know how love will end

But never ever introduce her to your handsomest friend.

[kicker-of-elves]

Samarra, Iraq   National Geographic November 1999   Michael Yamashita

[yesterdaysprint]

The Spear, Topeka, Kansas, May 1, 1931

[with-practice]

ig:@subwayhands

[mauveflwrs]

Marc Chagall  Fenêtre ouverte sur Paris 1963

[cats-of-cairo]

The Doors of Perception somewhere in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. 

[nayyirahwaheedpoems]

[sweaty-toothed]

Inside Llewyn Davis- Queen Jane song, Oscar Isaac

Queen Jane lay in labor full nine days or more 'Til her women grew so tired, they could no longer there They could no longer there "Good women, good women, g...

There was fiddling and dancing On the day the babe was born But for Queen Jane, beloved She laid cold as a stone Laid cold as a stone.

[sovietpostcards]

May by M. Ivensen (1933)