Bite yourself as word into the knowing

(Blog name from 'Die Zweite', by Paul Celan ["beiß dich als Wort in den wissenden"])

[slickwhippet]

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sunset amid Dark Clouds over the Sea, from The Whalers Sketchbook (ca. 1845)

[vaguelykyle]

v. tired & attempting to get things edited after a long while of procrastination, &  realising that I need to go back to therapy because I’m still in a Bad Place & the antidepressants are just glossing over the worst of it rather than dealing with it, so that’s where I am

[oldpaintings]

God’s Year by Piotr Październik (Polish, 1858–1938)

[speciesbarocus]

Lucas Cranach the Elder - Melancholy (1532).

[renaissance-art]

Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435

Saint George Killing the Dragon (detail)

[howtoseewithoutacamera]

by Jakob Tuggener

From the series Factory, Switzerland, 1936. [x]

[simena]

Elisabeth Ahnert

[vaguelykyle]

Just finished reading This Little Art (K. Briggs, Fitzcarraldo, 2018) & taken with Barthes’ notion of dysrhythmia. How might we take into account our tempos of living & the time we react in (eg. instant takes on Twitter, the speed of journal publishing, the differentials in the speed of instant & delayed speech), & how to take account of that and achieve a way of “coming together, points in the day for companionship, modulating, offsetting, interrupting our competing desire for solitude.” Feels as if publishing & attempting to foster a community is v. much an exercise in falling into unproductive dysrhythmia.

[vaguelykyle]

dreamt that i was in a victorian-era beach town & there were races for local folks who sail out to rusting buoys in patchwork & plastic bottle rafts, but whenever a raft reached the buoy it would be taken under by large tentacles & i sat on the stones collecting the washed-up fabric to return to the families of those who died 

[hungarian-painters]

Lotz Károly - Szent László kápolna freskói            

Falkép, Nagyboldogasszony (Mátyás) - templom, Budapest

[vaguelykyle]

am sleeping on a settee & listening to Max Richter & wondering where i am now & where things will be soon & not so soon

[vaguelykyle]

i don’t remember how i made it home from Ldn the other day or how I cut my knee or why there were painkillers in my pocket & while it was grand to chat with my friend & get wasted that cannot afford to happen again as so much is lost in the present aftermath & now i just want to settle somewhere quiet (maybe with someone which would be quite lovely but not necessary)

[vaguelykyle]

am sleeping on a settee & listening to Max Richter & wondering where i am now & where things will be soon & not so soon

[signorformica]

Tower of Babel. Franz Stieberich (active in Germany circa 1776). Sotheby’s Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

[lilithsplace]

Heavenly Body in the Night Sky, c. 1497 Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)

[inersore]

The madonna of the lilies, 1899

The virgin, jesus and saint john baptist, 1875

The madonna of the roses, 1903

Pieta, 1876

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

[vaguelykyle]

The poetry outlives the poet. I really believe in that. But while I’m alive, I’ll keep at it.

Sufjan Stevens

[madamelesfressange]

                                             Divine Entanglement

1. Francesco Baratta, Saint Francis in Ecstasy, San Pietro Montorio

2. Domenico Guidi, La Sacra Famiglia, Sant'Agnese in Agone

3. Melchiorre Cafà, Ecstasy of Saint Catherine, Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli

4. Bernini, Estasi di Santa Teresa. Cornaro Chapel

5. Filippo Della Valle, Annunciazione, Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio

6. Francesco Brunetti, Santa Maris Porta Paradisi, Altar