The Parapraxis Project

Wonders Slipping Out

[neshamama]

that high school sketch my friend held onto. graphite and paper

[litaratura]

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

[themaybug]

The Mountain Goats, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1

[nyctaeus]

Francis Bacon, ‘Painting’, oil and pastel on linen, 1946, collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchase, 1948, the first work by Francis Bacon to enter a major public collection

[missmodular]

Current status: obsessing over Hope Gangloff’s illustrations.

(via Elizabeth on Pinterest)

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“Have you ached for the world? You stare back into me until I exist—”

— What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence, Michael Wasson

[jessicahyde93-deactivated202201]

The Van Gogh Blues

[alinaperle]

[shisasan]

Ph. Ellen Rogers

[intopermanence]

“To say a feeling, an impression is to diminish it — expel it. But sometimes feelings are too strong: passions, obsessions. Like romantic love. Or grief. Then one needs to speak, or one would burst.”

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: “August, 1964”

[le-immorte]

[last-picture-show]

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918

[aridante]

the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath // little father, li-young lee // dostoevsky and parricide, sigmund freud // forest, crystal vega-huerta // the pulling, sharon olds // salt water, peter campion // learning late letters, quyên nguyễn-hoàng // the woods, daughter // the cubist painters, guillaume apollinaire // deathwatch, michael ryan.

[asparagus-abernathy]

— written by Donna Tartt, from The Secret History (pages 6-12), originally published c. 1992

[metamorphesque]

Henry James  2. Vincent van Gogh  3. Rainer Maria Rilke

[detailsofpaintings]

Vincent Van Gogh, Cypresses (details)

1889

[usurperss]

Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

[usurperss]

oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does

[vinceaddams]

I LOVE it when paintings have this level of detail, it makes things so much better for sewing references. You can see the embroidered foil covered buttons on the first picture, and the metal purl & spangles, and even the little honeycomb net in between the motifs of his lace shirt ruffles! The dress in the last picture is made of a beautiful shot silk taffeta, woven with light brown threads one way and green ones the other (similar fabric available here) and he even painted the little zig zags on the pinked scalloped edges! A lot of the time even photos of extant garments don’t have that much detail in them. 

Also, because I hate seeing historical stuff posted without the dates, images 1 and 2 - King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers, 1771 (The purple & green suit in that one is so cool because it has little shiny stripes made of flat metal strip woven in, exactly like one of the extant waistcoats in Waistcoats from the Hopkins Collection!!)

3 - Marie Suzanne Giroust, 1770 (with lovely silver lace, and what appear to be detachable sleeve extensions.)

4 - The artist and his wife Marie Suzanne Giroust, 1767 (And he’s also wearing shot silk!)

[down-the-rabbith0le]