I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
-Franz Kafka,
Letter to Milena Jesenská
#Skeleton Paul Delvaux
#Halloween
cross the line,
set me on fire
-Cy Twombly,
“Fifty Days at Iliam: The Fire that Consumes All before It.", 1978.
everything is very nice —
only I miss you —
-Georgia O’Keeffe,
in a letter to Jean Toomer,
from “Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“Lake George” (formerly “Reflection Seascape), 1922
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
-Simone de Beauvoir
-Georgia O'Keeffe, watercolors painted 1916-1918 while she was head of the art department at West Texas State College
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
-Mark Strand
“Lines for Winter”
#poetry
-Rockwell Kent
let us look for what
the sea undid
insistently, carelessly,
what it broke up and abandoned,
and left behind for us.
-Pablo Neruda
“Forget About Me”
Ernst Haeckel
“Seashell” Plates 1-3
Is your mask
to hide
from others
or to hide
from yourself?
Artist: John Stezaker
Mask series
#Halloween
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
-Frida Kahlo
“Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress”, 1926
Painted when Frida was only nineteen years old. Given as a gift to her first love, Alejandro Gómez Arias.
~we’ll be looking
at the same moon~
-Miles Davis
“Moon Dreams”
The Birth of Cool, 1957
-Georgia O'Keeffe
“Pink Moon over Water”, 1923
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#MoonEclipse