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Laura Makabresku. The Anatomy of Melancholy (self-portrait, 2021).

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Robert Crumb accurately predicting the average social media user almost 45 years ago

Do you hate everything? Ad by Robert Crumb, 1982.

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Anatomical Plate (1691) - Bernardino Genga [artist] Charles Errard [engraving]

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“Winterreise” by Inken Stabell

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Get to know anyone and that’s what happens; they shed one layer of mystery after another, the dismal burlesque towards their inevitable ordinariness. There’s a reason the surface of things is so appealing; it’s the same reason we don’t see what’s going on inside us all the time. Organs squelching. All that blood. The things that keep us alive happen in the dark, because they’re fucking ugly.

- Colin Walsh, Kala

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Rural Ohio, January 2024.

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Illustration of the Great Comet of 1577, from the book Tarcuma-I Cifr al-Cami by Mohammed b. Kamaladdin, 16th century AD.

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We need the baddies to learn how to shoot again

Two women conduct marksmanship training at Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, Calif., circa August 1942.

via reddit

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Grief is like falling in love; it is always narcissistic. Some catastrophe cuts through your life and immediately you reshape the world to make this disaster the secret heartbeat of all things, the buried truth of the universe. 

- Colin Walsh, Kala

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One the more obscure manifestations of American cultural hegemony is that girls from places like Germany or South Korea will post Independence Day-themed thirst traps to their instagram accounts on July 4th

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My favorite owls that I’ve encountered are roosting here.

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Ian Davis (American, 1972) - Spectacle (2019)

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"O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted!"

Samuel Read (1815–1883) - The Haunted House, 1854

illustration for poem by Thomas Hood

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Tom Bagshaw (2025)

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Homesick, Nicholas Moegly

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Sonja Zorko

Church in the Country

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Teng Pu-Chun（鄧卜君 Tainwanese, b.1957）

Moving in Between 2023 Ink on Paper 76.5 × 76.5 cm via more