[arsantiquis]

Thomas Fearnley; details of From Balestrand at the Sognefjord.

[lestempsdereveur]

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss. For this reason, the proper use of language... is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words.

Italo Calvino, from Exactitude, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

[twirld]

Nude with Flowering Branch (detail, 1863) Gustave Courbet 

[pusluktalaratlasi]

pink hues

[marthajefferson]

Flowers and Fruit, details (1866) - Henri Fantin-Latour

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“What does the god of your childhood look like? A soft apparition pigeoned in the attic, a wound eating you one year at a time?”

— blud, ‘outhouse’ by Rachel McKibbens

[0thello]

Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis (detail), 1650

unknown artist.

[weltenwellen]

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

[papirene-royzn]

The Apparition by James Tissot

[la-catharsis]

Jusepe de Ribera - Mary Magdalene in meditation (1623)

[lauramcphee]

Collo di donna, 1950 (Federico Vender)

[zephyr-of-death]

“There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.”

— Anne Carson, “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent“ (via victoriajoan)

[drogonqueen]

Christian Dior Spring 2021 Couture 

[flowerytale]

Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

[simena]

François Martin-Kavel (detail)

[weltenwellen]

Wisława Szymborska, tr. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak, from “Moment of Silence”, Map: Collected and Last Poems

[simena]

PIETRO PAOLINI - A Portrait of a Man Writing by Candlelight (detail)