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“We are two tree-trunks burned in a thunderstorm Two flames in a midnight forest; We are two meteors that fly at night, A two-pointed arrow of one fate. We are two steeds, whose bridle is held By one hand, – one spur pricks them; We are two eyes of a single gaze, Two quivering wings of one dream. We are a grieving pair of two shadows Above the marble of a divine coffin, Where ancient Beauty rests. Two-voiced lips of single mysteries, We both are a single sphinx for each other. We are two arms of a single cross”

— Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), “Love” (translated from Russian by Michael Watchel) 

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Alvin Langdon Coburn     William Butler Yeats , London      1910

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens” William Butler Yeats

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1920′s Cartier compact and lipstick case. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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William McGee, Untitled, (paper collage on vintage postcard), 1990 [Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), Asheville, NC; Gift of Connie Bostic. © William McGee]

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James Duncan Graham, Jr. (1841-1900)  in his american acting Midshipman uniform, daguerreotype, 1857 

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window view

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Jean-Francois Jonvelle - Apollonia Wearing a Outfit by Sheridan Barnett for Simon Massey (Vogue UK 1972)

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“Beauvoir writes [that] a habit that is ‘thoroughly integrated’ into someone’s life ‘makes it richer, for habit has a kind of poetry.’ […] The poetry of habit is a kind of corporeal mindfulness. [Beauvoir] suggests that the habitual participation in certain rituals can allow for the repetition of a meaningful event whereby 'the present moment is the past brought to life again, the future anticipated, [both] experienced together.’ [For example], the habitual aspect of drinking tea each day at the same time, allows for a connection to the past [and] opens up a future that is not defined by projects and goals but simply by the continued possibility of a joy […].”

— Silvia Stoller, Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age

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Sergei Lodygin (1893-1961), 'Искушение' (Temptation) 1920

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Dutch delft plaque with four hoys before four Dutch warships preparing to arrive at the anchorage, mid 18th century

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Some pages from Virginia Woolf’s photo album at Monk’s House.

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barbara stanwyck interacting with women moodboard

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New York (Two Days of Protest), Photo by Homer Page, 1949

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Walter Crane 

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Lyon, France 1860s

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Duncan Grant

Two Handled Vase, 1932-35 - earthenware with lead glaze

Sotheby's

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Untitled, Photo by Frances McLaughlin-Gill, 1955