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Courtesy: Lucas Benji

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Lee Man Fong - Lion

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New Paper Textured Editorial Illustrations by Eiko Ojala

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Publicity photos of David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve for THE HUNGER (1983).

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Arthouse Muppets

Midsommar

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

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I can understand how "modern person thrown into the past gets by pretending to be a healer/doctor" is as surprisingly common of a trope as it is. I mean I'm fluent enough at bullshitting to be pretty sure I could pull it off to impersonate a doctor in any time pre-1800s. If I have no idea what something is or how to treat it, I could just get the opinion of the other whatever-passes-as-medical-professionals around, but if their suggestions sound like bullshit I'm not doing it. And I'll beat the shit out of anyone suggesting bloodletting or mercury. With my healing stick. I've tied little bells on it, that jingle comically with every smack.

The awesome curative powers of my healing stick come from two separate sources: Placebo, and me using it to beat anyone trying to give my patients mercury.

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Athens Archaeological Museum

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Tsuneo Iwasaki (1917-2002) — Hydrogen Atom [ink, colour, japanese calligraphy, panel, 1990s]

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'Rebirth' by Nigel Suckling. (1970 East Totem West)

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Bruce Conner, 1990

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Dream City, 1921, Paul Klee

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Vasily Kandinsky

Circles in a Circle, 1923, oil on canvas, 98.7 x 95.6 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

For Kandinsky, the circle, the most elementary of forms, had symbolic, cosmic significance. He wrote that “the circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the excentric in a single form, and in balance.” In a letter of 1931, he described Circles in a Circle as “the first picture of mine to bring the theme of circles to the foreground.”

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Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971), White Peacocks and Cherry Blossoms, 1926

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Oleg Grosse (Russian, 1932-1991) Girl in a Beige Dress

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Childhood Group IV (1907), Hilma af Klint