In Search of the Waters of Oblivion, 1812 
John Martin Sadak

There is no such thing as ‘was’ – only ‘is.’ If ‘was’ existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

William Faulkner, “The Art of Fiction,” No. 12

Heidegger says: “Und auch das Abwesende geht uns an.” And also: Nicht jedes Anwesen ist notwendig Gegenwart, eine seltsame Sache. 

(via heteroglossia)

PIRAMIDES ET MOMIES — Ancient pyramids and mummies illustrated in a 1683 edition of Description de L’Universe by Alain Manesson Mallet, Paris.

Saturn’s north pole hexagon.

My heart is so tired.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via uglypnis)

Vincent van Gogh’s room in the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Paul-de Mausole in Saint-Remy

Somewhere in the Pacific on Flickr.

Guillermo Andrés Lorca García Huidobro

Laura y los perros. Oil on canvas, 200x150 cm (2012) Ovejas. Oil on canvas, 190x148 (2012-2013) El Banquete. Oil on canvas, 250x206 cm (2013-14) La vida eterna. Oil on canvas, 290x260 cm (2013)

Les Origines: Il y eut peut-être une vision première, assoupie dans la fleur (The Origins: There was perhaps a first vision, drowsing in the flower)

Odilon Redon

1883

"There, some life beyond time existed quietly, in harmony, telling us of eternity–those violent and cruel powers that form the world are gently captured. That work of Redon’s that my friend showed me in his small studio looked like unformed heaven and earth, with a violent primordial energy and anxiety of things being born: an eyeball floating in the dark night, looking like… what? A flower? A human form? In “The Origins” one can see Redon’s true qualities purely concentrated in black and white: the movement of the desire in all earthly things as they aspire to evolve into something human, or, the mysterious exchange of feelings that Rilke felt in the swaying trees when he wrote, "I am becoming a tree, or, is the tree becoming me?" Emerging from some deep swamp, that eyeball will haunt me forever. Is that the stare that threatened Cain?"

–Toru Takemitsu, “Redon Fantasy: A Lone Tree in the Wasteland”, 1980.

Paweł Tadeusz Galiński: Vanitas I, 2013.

Magnetic Levitation