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'A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.'
-Jean Rhys

🎨Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-12

Gothic butterfly

by David Aguirre Hoffmann

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2022-07-12

“Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
...
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea" (Matthew Arnold)

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2022-07-10

Falling in love with this Kazakh artist!

🌙 Rim Bitik about her artworks: “Each piece is a visual story from the past, where I have come from, as well as a preview of the future, where I am going”


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2022-07-10

'...but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.'
-Mary Shelley

🎨Cipriano Mannucci

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2022-07-07

I always understood the Korrigans to be ghost-fees, the shades of pagan priestesses, according to the great Katherine Briggs in 'Fairy Lore & Legends'.

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2022-07-06

Elijah in the Wilderness, Frederic Leighton, c. 1877–1878.

4 26
2022-06-29

Only the wise old owl knows your fate…
Board game covers for 'Chiromagica or The Hand of Fate’, a fortune-telling game by McLoughlin Bros (1858-1920, New York)
Wizard with trusty owl edition c.1901; Witch & black cats, bats & owls edition c.1903

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2022-06-27

"I gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,"

(1/2)
- William Cullen Bryant
🎨 by Jacob van Ruisdael

1 8
2022-06-21

"O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind." (Yeats)

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2022-06-14

“Sometimes his genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart. But mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously”

... on Friedrich Hölderlin, arch-Romanticist poet & philosopher, who died 1843

🎨 Ehsan-safavie

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2022-06-08

“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
― Haruki Murakami

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2022-06-06

"... an owl, that grim bird which Atropus takes for her interpreter..." (Jean de la Fontaine)

🎨 Richey Beckett (2012)

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2022-06-06

Annie Stegg’s otherworldly kittens for your 🌑🐈‍⬛

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2022-06-05

“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.” (Melville)

Once upon a time, in the waters near Bikini at new moon.

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2022-06-04

In Flanders it's said that a woman who was cursed flew in the wind. She only appeared during the summer months and destroyed cornfields. She also threw everything that was in her way into the wind.

🎨Henri Fantin-Latour

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2022-06-04

"The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses."

Walter Sickert was born 1860

🎨 "The Camden Town Murder" (1908)

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2022-05-31

“Water devils are those naiads or water nymphs which have been heretofore conversant about waters and rivers.

The water is their chaos, wherein they live... appearing most part in women's shapes”

— Howard Williams


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2022-05-30

"Though as a ghost,
I shall lightly tread,
the summer fields."
(Hokusai)

Yūrei are Japan's restless spirits, mostly women, who haunt the night still dressed in their white burial kimonos

🎨 "Female Ghost in the Moonlight" (c 1850)

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2022-05-29