Flowering Kalanchoe in Holualoa, Hawaii. Kalanchoe was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space station in 1971. Photo: Kevin R. Seiter

artists and their muses

emilie louise flöge emilie flöge by gustav klimt (1902)

How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Vincent Van Gogh

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "On Loving"

[Text ID: "Do you know what I want of life? / That I can be with you, you, all of you, / and if life repeated a thousand times, / still you, you, and again, you."]

Harold Feinstein. Screaming on the Cyclone, 1955.

Stained Glass Water Tower

Brooklyn-based artist Tom Fruin installed a beautiful steel and plexiglas water tower in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood

Made up of 1,000 pieces of salvaged plexiglas, -Source-

"we're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above

dance me to the end of love"

The Mirror-Faced Grim Reaper in Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

“This film is endowed with an acute sense of restlessness and alienation; reflecting this uncanny estrangement in the doubling, tripling and quadrupling of its central character, and in its cyclic narrative, a structure that seems condemned to repetition. Why is the hooded Death figure constructed as a kind of mirror? Are we dealing with Nietzsche’s notion of ‘eternal return’? (…) You could go on forever about the meaning buried in this particular work. It invites and eludes analysis.” – CINEMA AND DREAM-LOGIC IN MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

after that second espresso..

The Garden of Eden

Hugh Goldwin Riviere (1869–1956)

Guildhall Art Gallery

Freedom!

Mahmoud Saïd (Egyptian, 1897-1964).