To keep our minds unreflective of a world of horrors, we distract them with a world of trifling or momentous trash.
Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (via a-dance-with-the-absurd)
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Salvador Dali, Photo by Phillipe Halsman for SHOW MAGAZINE JUNE 1970
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Oil on Arches Oil Paper, 2019
@ LVP’s shop
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‘The Cosmic Eye' (2019) by Steve R Dodd 👁👁👁👁
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Gloom is literally atmospheric, climate as much as impression, and if people are also gloomy, this is simply the byproduct of an anodyne atmosphere that only incidentally involves human beings. Gloom is more climatological than psychological, the stuff of dim, hazy, overcast skies, of ruins and overgrown tombs, of a misty, lethargic fog […]
Eugene Thacker, Cosmic Pessimism (via poeticsofdeath)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Triumph of Death, ca. 1562
Museo del Prado, Spain
Oil on panel
117x162 cm
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Steve R Dodd “The Dying Giant” (1980s) Previously published on a Dutch greeting card.
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