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"Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'"
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865.
Arantza Sestayo - Alice and the Caterpillar.
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“You must tune everything else out and create from your heart."
I nod, dipping my brush in red acrylic, then white, before mixing the paints on the palette until they form a perfect pink.
I paint a peony, and then another. I somehow recall a garden, far away from here, where there were peonies. I remember the way the blossoms are so heavy that they flounce over, and I reach for another brush and dip it into green to get the stems just right.”
― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris
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Like we’ve all forgotten again ✨⛈💖
from @maalavidaa
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Art by Vanessa Stockard
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I’ve always been intrigued by Carlotta Monterey…..
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“The first time I met O'Neill, I thought him the rudest man I'd ever seen!”
Carlotta…you haven’t met me…I digress… 4 years after their initial meeting she changed her tune…Carlotta had divorced her 3rd hubby — Ralph Barton, who later killed himself blaming his estrangement from Carlotta for his melancholy. O'Neill was recovering from a bout with alcoholism and the deterioration of his marriage to his second wife.
O’Neill was an alcoholic..
“I need you.’ He kept saying. ‘I need you, I need you'—never ‘I love you, I think you are wonderful—just ‘I need you, I need you.’”.. ‘so needy’!!!
She did everything for O’Neill…sorted his finances …was his secretary and typed his manuscripts…
O'Neill wrote ‘Strange Interlude’
and ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,” which he for ever after called “Carlotta's plays”
Both were very possessive… Carlotta more so…she was his wife, mistress, secretary, and nurse…all at once …she also thought there was no room in their marriage for his friends or even their own children!! On their 12th anniversary, …as a tribute to your love and tenderness.”
he gave to Carlotta a work titled
‘Long Day's Journey Into Night’..this autobiographical work caused O’Neill a large amount of thirst…grief and depression…so much so that he said it was only to be published 25 years after his death. A few months after his death she had it published!!! She was strapped for cash… now… I’m wondering why she didn’t ask her step daughter Oona O’Neil CHAPLIN to lend her a dollar or two?
I’m also wondering if she published it for spite as at one point they became …errrr… well their marriage deteriorated…Carlotta's growing suspicion over visits to O'Neill by actress friends was noted and at one point, he went to court to have her confined to a mental institution she then filed suit for separate maintenance, charging extreme cruelty…
They did reunite and I’m sure O’Neill said once more “need you…I NEED YOU!”…
So needy!!
The first 2 pics she’s wearing Cartier…image by Steichen and the caricature is by her second husband the brilliant Ralph Barton.
Caption by @richardquarterly
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Lucille Ball in the 1942 film spectacle ‘Ziegfeld Follies’ 💕🖤
Art from @slicksatan
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17th Century Emerald Cup Created With 252 Carats Of Emerald. Persian Verses Inscription. Belonged To Emperor Jehangir Of Mughal India
Source: Archaeology and Art via Facebook
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My Little Black Angel
From No Art Left Behind
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No.303 at Nanzenji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Photosynthesis enhances the beauty of nature by making the modest lighting of green leaves from sunlight and carbon dioxide.
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"I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be…"
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Lily 2.0
Cyber series. 🤖 from @natalieshau
This is digital photo and 3d art combined. 🐲
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"Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper."
- Arthur Mellen Wellington
Abandoned Stained Glass Locomotive Art
🖼 of ghost owl attic
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"But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look
And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I’m finally through.
The black telephone’s off at the root,
The voices just can’t worm through.
If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two―
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.
There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never like you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through."
Sylvia Plath, Ariel
#commisionsearned
Art by @renegarza__
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Mimsy’s Power
“I used to want to save the world. To end war and bring Mimsy to mankind. But then we glimpsed the darkness that lives within their light. Mimsy and I learned that inside every one of them there will always be both.”
Art by @joyceartworks
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Pietro Tenerani (Italian, 1789-1869) Psiche svenuta, 1869 Galerie nationale d'Art moderne et contemporain, Rome
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 Aphrodite - Greece - 3rd Century BCE
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friend!
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