i’m smiling, i’m just smiling upside down

30's, queer. lover of art, photography, and the human form. aspiring nudist. for some time i have been in my chrysalis form. now emerging from my cocoon. icon is from a partially colored sketch by william adolphe bouguereau ✨ “Perfume is a love affair with one’s self.” — Francois Coty

[beweep]

around the bend

[charnel-grounds]

Arminius Hasemann (1888–1979)

from “Eros Thanatos – ein Totentanz” series

woodcut on paper, 1921 — source

[archival-canine]

Saint Bernard

Thompson, Sally Ann. Buzzini, Marc. A Standard Guide to Purebred Dogs, by Harry Glover, Galley Press, 1982, p. 241.

[miamaimania]

“Earthly Elegance” by Melanie Bourget: Ceramic curves in serene repose.

[granstromjulius]

Gustave Courbet

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A variety of caterpillars from Rudolph Mell's Biologie und systematik der südschinesischen sphingiden, zugleich ein versuch einer biologie tropischer lepidopteren überhaupt (1922) Full text here.

[j-k-i-ng]

“Living in Bubbles” 🏡 by | Leo Thomas

Round Gardens, The Naerum of Copenhagen, Denmark

[luminarai]

I looked these allotments up because I had never heard about them before and I gotta say, the reasoning between this design - that landscape architect students from around the world apparently come to visit every year - is the funniest, most Scandinavian thing I’ve ever heard.

They were designed in the late 1940s by Danish landscape architect C. Th. Sørensen who, when asked about the oval hedges, said (my translation):

‘Neighbours always argue about their shared hedges. How should they be cut? How tall should they be? Here, everyone gets their own hedge with a no man’s land in between. This way, nobody has to argue about it!’

This man literally created a landscape design that is still admired by professionals in his field just so he could avoid talking to his annoying neighbours. Incredible.

[digitalf0untains]

Photography by Elmer Batters

- 1960

[nobrashfestivity]

Lucien Coutaud Centaur and Siren sketch, part of a letter sent to Isabelle Kloucowski 1933 gouache on paper

[random-brushstrokes]

Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1886 - 1940) - The cigarette

[bebemoon]

"The sculpture in the image is “Das Schicksal” (Fate), created in 1905 by Hugo Lederer. The sculpture portrays fate as a ruthless woman dragging two vulnerable bodies by their hair.

The work is currently located in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany."

from @dustseasons on instagram .

[philamuseum]

From budding flowers and green landscapes to warmer weather and birds chirping… we’re so happy to welcome the first day of spring.

“Buds and Blossoms,” 1916, by Daniel Garber © Estate of Daniel Garber

[antonio-m]

Michael Leonard (British, 1933–2023). "Untitled", 1978. colored pencil on paper

[tsalala]

Feliforms of the night Londolozi Private Game Reserve, South Africa Assorted images from the Londolozi blog

[miamaimania]

“What’s Left” (1992) by Jim Hodges ◈ Spider web colonizing discarded clothes

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Patrick Clelland

[withbriefthanksgiving]

ID: in a train car, empty save for a single passenger, shafts of sunlight fall across the bright yellow wooden seats. End of ID.

[viagginterstellari]

Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, 2020