XPHAIEA.

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Lil Dagover

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Alberto Martini, Marchesa Luisa Casati

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Candace Kling, Red Rainbow, 1981

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Kay Nielsen

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Juri Arrak

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Edward Burne-Jones

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Yoshimi Uchida

[charnel-grounds]

Pilvi Ojala (b. 1973)

Triptych — Fallen Angel, Faithful (Mary Magdalene), Armless Cupid, 2025

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[orchidblack]

 “You are no longer trembling, carcass.” This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

-Andre Breton, Le Manifeste du Surréalisme (1924)

[phantastische-illustrationen]

'Pluto', 1909 (Franz von Stuck)

[derangedrhythms]

…she saw [the angels] as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.

Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

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'The Witch'. Achille Calzi. 1904.

[enchantedbook]

"Lunar Landscape with Owls" by Carl Strathmann, 1900.

[femalepentimento]

Holly Lynton - Bare Handed

[ducissatenebrarum]

Humanoid Khepri, Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Egyptian Museum of Berlin

Khepri is an ancient Egyptian god associated with the rising sun, creation, and rebirth. He is often depicted as a scarab beetle, symbolizing transformation and renewal.

Khepri’s name is related to the verb kheper, meaning “to become” or “to incarnate,” reflecting his role as a symbol of birth and transformation. In ancient Egyptian cosmology, he represented the morning aspect of the sun god Ra, while Ra embodied midday and Atum sunset. Thus, Khepri was part of the triune image of the sun, embodying eternal rebirth.

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[eirene]

Under the Flowers (Sous les Fleurs), ca. 1897 Edmond Francois Aman-Jean