domine, non sum dignus

art, literature, mysticism, ecocriticism

[perfectquote]

“It’s life that matters, nothing but life – the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[dozydawn]

Mayerling.

Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.

Lauren Cuthbertson and Thiago Soares.

Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.

Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.

Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.

Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Alice Brasser (Dutch, b. 1965, Alkmaar, Netherlands) - Swim, 2022, Paintings: Oil on Perspex on Wood

[old-school-romantics]

-Rumi

[dortan-lavancia]

LOUIS ICART

[intimatum]

Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly: Help, I’m The Loneliest Person In The World!

[nobletruths]

Madonna, Alexis de la Falaise, and Udo Kier at the Gaiety in NYC | The Sex Book | Madonna and ph: Steven Meisel | 1992

[womansfilm]

Christopher Isherwood's diaries, September 8, 1960

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[zegalba]

Alexander McQueen for The Face Magazine (1998)

[luntfontanne]

Siobhán Hapaska, Robot, 2001 // Pang Maokun, Destiny 命运; Hand in Hand 牵手, 2019 // Shorra, Death of a Cyborg (after The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau), 2015

[megairea]

“Full moon rising on the waters of my heart, Lakes and moon and fires,”

— Jean Toomer, from Evening Song; Caroling Dusk: an Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties (ed. by Countee Cullen)

[philodendrongoeldii]

Cave Networks, Fungi, and What it Means to be Alive

“Fear of Depths” by Jacob Geller // Illustration of green mold by Carlton C. Curtis, “Nature and Development of Plants” //  YouTube comment by The Florida Man // Illustration of a neuron, from “Neurons and glial cells” // Merlin Sheldrake, “Entangled Life” // map of Mammoth Cave H.C. Hovey // YouTube comment by Lorenzo Pachecho // Illustration of grass roots by Mohamed El Mazlouzi // Merlin Sheldrake, “Entangled Life”

[zegalba]

Yoshitaka Amano

[2001hz]

Yoshitaka Amano: Legend, 'Eyes' (1988)

[octopocalyptic]

“Ultimately, preservation of the non-human is a very personal crusade, a rejection of the homogenization of the world that threatens to diminish all, including the self. There is no such thing as an individual, only an individual-in-context, individual as a component of place, defined by place.”

— (my hero) Neil Evernden, “Beyond Ecology”

[nudelumiere]

cover art for paradise by fujiwara kaoru