Chieko Minowa aka 箕輪 智恵子 aka Minowa Chieko aka 箕輪千絵子 (Japanese, b. 1986, Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture, Japan, based Sapporo, Japan) - ガジュマルの樹 (Banyan Tree), 2018, Etching on Ganpishi Paper

mirror palais

Illustration from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for Andrew Lang’s The Blue Poetry Book by Lancelot Speed (1891)

4th Century Lycian Tomb in Fethiye Turkey

bees collecting sap from bloodwood tree.

what is your holy trinity of fruits

this is the hardest any single image has ever gone

I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

if i get too close and i’m not how you hoped, forgive my northern attitude, oh i was raised out in the cold.

if the sun don’t rise ‘til the summertime, forgive my northern attitude, oh i was raised on little light.

Welch Family Portrait – Howard Galleries // Temple Family, Lena Ward, and Fannie Wait in Yard at 811 Madison St., ca 1897 – unknown photographer // Growing Sideways – Noah Kahan

13th Century Crusader - Isle of Skye in Scotland.

Men will literally study Paracelsus, translate 1600s alchemical texts and distill potions for melancholy before going to therapy

the fact remains that body horror is an expression of intimacy. a grotesque and perverse one, maybe, but intimate nonetheless.

At the end of my rope and it keeps getting longer like some sort of clown handkerchief bit?

my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

Mara Lafontan for La Fontana Paris