Illustrations conchyliologiques - Jean-Charles Chenu - undated - via Internet Archive

Jan Rembowski (1879–1923) - Fighting the Dragon (Killing the Beast), 1909

Echinops, Globe Thistle

swans by hilma klint

Spring in full swing

Marble shell, 400BC, Greece.

Sorry for falling off. That was on purpose. I had to become something I wasn’t in order to remember what I was.

jessica ross jackson

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

[Image description: A series of close up profile screenshots of James Baldwin. Captions are printed on each shot.

“Love has never been a popular movement. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of very few people. Otherwise, of course you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you’ve got to remember is what you are looking at is also you. Everyone you’re looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”

[cheerfully] i've been in self-made hells worse than this

Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”

May Rainbows Over the Marsh - Brett Scheifflee , 2023.

American , b. 1986 -

Oil on canvas , 9 x 12 in.

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

Maëlis Bekkouche

The Lady of Elche, sometimes interpreted as an Atlantean priestess, is also believed to be related to the Carthaginian goddess Tanit. Greco-Iberian bust from Alicante (αρχαία Ελίκη), Spain, c.400-350 BC.