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Persephone had it right. If you must go, might as well take all of spring with you—

Cathy Linh Che, from “Letters to Doc”, Split (via voirlvmer)

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Summer has come. How quiet it is now that life has triumphed. (…)

Louise Glück, from A Summer Garden in “Faithful And Virtuous Night” (via adrasteiax)

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“It’s a human need, to give to shapelessness a form.”

— Carl Phillips, from “Fray” (via voirlvmer)

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“My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.”

—

Carl Jung

(via lonequixote)

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Babylon, 1906, Frantisek Kupka

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There were promises made in the darkness.

Promises made in your sleep.

Promises..

The gods demand you keep!

- Forever Yours (Reprise), New Broadway Once On This Island

Salutations! I miss this girl, Hecate. I know her hair is somewhat darker than this but I just feel like this color play will bring up some mood to show her power. I may have to readjust this here and there tho. I haven't finish it yet but so far I really like how things go.

the character are not mine.

character belongs to Rachel Smythe (@used_bandaid)

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"Finally surfaced above the downs

Feeling her boldest, she came around

'Cause she's a goddess, finally saw this"

-Goddess, Banks

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Had fun re-imagine my friend's character from sky! She's bright as the sun 💖☀️

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Still Life with a Mandolin, 1885, Paul Gauguin

Medium: oil,canvas

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“The most silence of silences has hold of me.”

— Leonid Lavrov, tr. by J. R. Rowland, from 20th Century Russian Poetry; “Notes of the Impossible,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Isle of Dogs (2018)

Directed by Wes Anderson Cinematography by Tristan Oliver

“I bite.”

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“a voice heard only on breathless nights, a desolate white memento.”

— Margaret Atwood, from Five Poems for Dolls (via wishbzne)

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Poignancy || 

a study of 3D models using modeling clay and acrylic paint.

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Does it silence or enliven your desire, the reminder

I will one day die? (This the question my body asks.)

— Leila Chatti, from “Odalisque (Polaroid Taken One Day Before the Surgery),” Deluge

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Sagittarius serpentarius

Secretary Bird

“The Killer Queen”

Sketches by me.

References :

Google Image

http://what-when-how.com/birds/secretary-bird-birds/

Poem and Text(s) :

The Queen - Pablo Neruda

http://what-when-how.com/birds/secretary-bird-birds/

https://www.britannica.com/animal/secretary-bird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=difrBNjGwLo&t=37s

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“Much like fairy tales, there are two facets of horror. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of fairy tale: Don’t wander into the woods, and always obey your parents. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment.”

— Guillermo del Toro on horror being inherently political  (via girlwithouthands)

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Gypaetus barbatus

Bearded Vulture

“King of the Dead”

Sketch by me.

References : Google Image.

Texts :

Epic III - Anais Mitchell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZpMctCc1UM&t=188s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture

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“The word “eclipse” comes from ancient Greek ekleipsis, “a forsaking, quitting, abandonment.” The sun quits us, we are forsaken by light.”

— Anne Carson, “Totality, The Colour of Eclipse”, in Decreation (via antigonick)