#maria butterfly

[bonedwoo]

[lowstrear67]

Ladies

[femmeetart]

she just needed a king and a princess

[mote-historie]

Maria Sibylla Merian, Castor Oil Plant with Ricini Longwing Butterfly, 1702-03.

Watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic over lightly etched outlines on vellum.

Royal Collection Trust

[operafantomet]

Three incarnation of Restaged Tour Masquerade: To the left the 2012-2013 UK costumes, in the middle the 2013-2020 US costumes, and to the right the Aussie and Austrian 2023-2024 costumes.

The lack of men here is because most of them are wearing uniforms and tailcoats which does not exist in Maria Bjørnson's design. I went for the costumes that in some way or another is meant to reflect on Bjørnson's design, albeit tweaked for the tour. So here's some of those I recognize, listed by their original name/look even if they may no longer recreate that character:

ROW 1: Star Princess (Christine)

ROW 2: Hussar (Raoul)

ROW 3: Red Death (Phantom)

ROW 4: Spider Dance (Carlotta)

ROW 5: Equestrian (Meg)

ROW 6: Goldfish (Ballerina)

ROW 7: Triangle Girl (Christine u/s)

ROW 8: Flower Girl (Ballerina)

ROW 9: Butterfly (Ballerina)

(Note that row 5 shows two versions of costumes used in the US, but the one placed to the left is identical to what was worn in the UK and with lack of good photos of the latter the US one substitutes it Due to the long run of the US Tour they featured several versions of some of the costumes)

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

[in this Emily Dickinson] -illuminates and magnifies these relationships through the lens of a single flower and everything that goes into making its bloom— this emblem of seduction-possible: the worms in the soil (which Darwin celebrated as the unsung agriculturalists that shaped Earth as we know it), the pollinators in the spring air, all the creatures both competing for resources and symbiotically aiding each other.

And, suddenly, the flower emerges not as this pretty object to be admired, like it had been throughout the canon of Victorian poetry, but as this ravishing system of aliveness—a kind of silent symphony of interconnected resilience.

Maria Popova on Bloom by Emily Dickinson (in The Universe in Verse)

[garadinervi]

Franca Sonnino – Maria Jole Serreli, Coocon, (installation view, details), 2023 [gramma_epsilon, Athens. © Franca Sonnino, Maria Jole Serreli]

From: The Butterfly Effect, Curated by Kostas Prapoglou, Organised by artefact athens, Mouzakis – Butterfly Factory, Athens, September 21 – October 22, 2023

[sorrywall]

Maria <3 I currently have silent hill brain rot : )

[artwah]

their deisgns are so similar... sh3 came first is all im saying (joke)

[fennecphoebe]

CATEGORY IS: LIL BITCHES THAT FOLLOW YOU AROUND 🥰

[mouseratzart]

do I look like your girlfriend?/you promised you'd take me there.

[saltycharacters]

[ID: Digital artwork featuring a collection of ocs with arthropod familiars. The 1st image is a lineup of 4 adults, including (left to right): A ducky isopod man named Tito Chen with a pompadour, sunglasses, and flashy suit, a shorter man named Dante-Enriquez Rivera with a toadbug familiar, curly hair in a bun, facial hair, and suspenders, a person named Blizzard Dunkley with a buzz-cut, agrias butterfly familiar, long blue coat, red-and-blue glasses, and large earrings, and finally a woman named Yolanda Sali with a harvestman familiar, in a nurses coat, stethoscope around her neck. Next drawing features 2 new adults, the first of which is named Maikel Miguel Patagara, who has multi-colored hair, prominent freckles, overalls and a prosthetic on their right foot, alongside a cayenne tick familiar. The second iteration of vim has eye shadows and an unhappier expression, and two prosthetic for each foot, seemingly home-made unlike the previous one. Zi is also wearing a necklace with a giant cat-eye type jewel, alongside a coat that’s on the 2nd person in the drawing - a little note mentions that this is xyr look “after Ireneo died”. Ireneo (Maria) Ressa, the 2nd person, has short grey hair, a long, fluffy coat, black cloth gloves, and some vitiligo, alongside a sowbug familiar. He's holding a notebook, pen tucked behind eir ear, and the 2nd iteration shows them without the coat. The final drawing is a doodle dump of Ireneo and Maikel mostly, showing such things as: them at a bar, Ireneo’s arm around Maikel’s shoulders as she says, “Hey me & my partner saw you from across the bar and we think your vibe sucks ass. Can we beat you up”, them kissing, Maikel at a pottery wheel while Ireneo watches, their familiars with hearts around them, and finally Maikel holding a phone up to their ear and saying, “Hey could you come pick me up they’re pelting me with rotten fruit in the town square again”. End ID]

Been thinking about my bug familiar story again

[mote-historie]

Maria Sibylla Merian, Branch of West Indian Cherry with Achilles Morpho Butterfly, detail, 1702-03.

Royal Collection Trust

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Image:Kōtarō Migishi Butterflies flying above the Clouds 1934, oil on canvas. Collection The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

🍂

[kiki-has-a-cat]

sweet spring 💕

[altri-menti]

È intollerabile che le persone che amiamo si trasformino in passato.

(Javier Marias)