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avery • 24 • writer.

[voirlvmer]

“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets…”

— Derek Walcott, Bleecker Street, Summer (via thoughtsforbees)

[aireina]

Mexico City. Fernanda Segura

[tierras]

maya poon debajo del árbol de cempasúchil

[synqra]

[weepingwidar]

Alexandra Verkerk (Dutch, 1957) - Outside In III (2020)

[prorochestvo]

Tunisian Jews in Djebra photographed by Frank Scherschel, 1950s

[semioticapocalypse]

Henri Cartier Bresson. Athens, 1953

[::SemAp FB || SemAp G+::]

[chandajaan]

[lacetulle]

Robert Wun | Spring/Summer 2023

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

Elena Tommasi Ferrone Freak Still Life 2012 oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm

[arjuna-vallabha]

Ancient Greek gold and garnet earrings, dated to the 4th century BCE

[polkadotmotmot]

Polly Shindler - Cabinet in Hallway, 2017

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Art Nouveau Choker In Pearls, Gold, Enamel, Diamonds & Emeralds. Designed by Georges Fouquet in 1910.

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Olga Onischenko

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[museenkuss]

Embroidered Casket about 1675, England, wood covered with satin, silk and metal thread, mica and glass beads, ivory (figures in the garden) 32 x 21 x 26cm

In many cases the final challenge [for a woman learning embroidery] was the production of a casket like this one, depicting scenes from myth or the Bible using a wide range of stitches and materials. In particular these caskets employ raised work, the technique of embroidering over padding.

It is probable that each individual figure or element was sewn independently and then applied to the delicate white satin background. This meant that the needlewoman could experiment and correct mistakes which would be impossible to rework on the satin. Once the panels were completed they were sent to a local cabinet-maker who mounted them on wood and made them up into a casket. The silver braid conceals the joins and prevents the satin from fraying.

(image and text from the Victoria and Albert Museum)

[soracities]

In the morning, the sun is rosy, transparent, warm gold. And the air itself is a little rosy, all steeped in the sun’s gentle blood. Everything is alive: stones are living and soft; iron is living and warm….

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (trans. Natasha Randall)