This is a museum of my heart

[enchantedbook]

A creature of the rivers and swamps of Slavic mythology, he lurks beneath the water, waiting to drag people and animals down to his underwater palace.

“Vodyanoy,” Ivan Bilibin, 1934.

[charnel-grounds]

Albert Hasselwander (1877–1954)

“Ein Anatomischer Totentanz.” München: J.F. Bergmann, 1926

source

[zegalba]

Octopus, Moss Beach CA, June 2013

[seraphinesaintclair]

Charles Baudelaire, “Mist And Rain”

[forndom]

© Forndom

[xphaiea]

Remedios Varo • Forest, 1956

[oculus-de-malus]

Arachne by Otto Henry Bacher (c. 1884)

[enchantedbook]

"The Golden Key", John Bauer (1882-1918)

[chronivore]

Alfred Kubin, "The Creature from Mars" (1906)

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

There's another kind of intimacy besides waking up and going to sleep together; it's the intimacy of crying, laughing, screaming with pleasure or pain, to become someone else in the arms of a loved one, under his or her gaze, in complete trust and freedom.

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, April 15-16, 1950 [#280]

[oldpaintings]

Fried Fish Shop, c.1907 by Stanislawa de Karlowska (Polish, 1876–1952)

[vintagepales]

[doomwhathouwilt]

[ashleygore]

[rosieandthemoon]

Isabeau de Bavière, Queen Consort of France

[charnel-grounds]

Otto Dix (1891–1969), “Nacht in der Stadt” (Night in the City)

oil on paper, 1913

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