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Hamda Al Fahim “Disco Daydreams” spring 2022 couture

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finally got to explore an abandoned funeral home

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Victorian hair art work: used both for scrapbooking and mourning

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Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Magda Bogin, from The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos; "On the edge of pleasure"

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Gabriel Cornelius von Max (1840-1915) Morning (Fading). 1870 St. Petersburg, the Hermitage.

Габриэль Корнелиус Макс (1840-1915) Утро (Увядание).1870 Санкт-Петербург, Эрмитаж.

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— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1894

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“Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists.”

- John Dewey, Art as Experience

Plaza de España - Seville, Spain

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“She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and you’ll never find Prince Charming. No knight on a white horse gallops into her dreams to carry her away. When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes. ””

— Jerry Spinelli (via seabois)

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Ramón Casas - Au Moulin de la Galette, 1892 (detail), oil on canvas

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Enescu’s Œdipe (Royal Opera House, 2016)

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“To try to not be more interesting but be more interested” literally changed my life perspective btw

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(Detail) Manon Balletti,Jean Marc Nattier,1757.

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Peggy Kriha Dye, Wallis Giunta and Phillip Addis in Le Nozze di Figaro (2010, Toronto)

Photographed by Bruce Zinger

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Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

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Carved shell and engraved gilt sewing kit lined with blue silk. Made in Paris, c. 1815-1820

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“(…) I feel I am myself a small bird with a terrible hunger, with a thin beak probing and dipping and a heart that races so fast it is only a heartbeat ahead of breaking— and I am the hunger and the assuagement, and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight and shaking.”

— Mary Oliver, from “Summer Story”, Red Bird

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Vivien Leigh as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, photo by John Swope for Vogue, June 1, 1940