Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind, run on the top of the dishevelled tide, and dance upon the mountains like a flame.

William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire (via seabois)

CHŁOPI (eng. THE PEASANTS)   2022, dir. Dorota Kobiela — concept trailer

Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władyslaw Reymont, the story follows a young woman in the late 19th century who is forced to marry a wealthy farmer, despite her love for his son. The townspeople come to despise her, but she fights on. Set in the Polish countryside on the cusp of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the story’s dramatic turns tie into the changing seasons, hard labor in the fields, and the traditional local holidays. The look is inspired “by popular realist and pre-impressionist paintings from the 19th Century, with an emphasis on the Young Poland Movement and the works of such artists as Józef Chełmoński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, and Leon Wyczółkowski.” It won’t be done until 2022, considering every frame (over ~65,000) has to be painted by hand. 

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Carl Theodor von Blaas (1886 - 1960)

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search Of America

Door into the garden (2020)

Bluresque aka Quodlibet (England) - Stairway To Elsewhere, 2017, Photography

details, paolo sebastian a/w 2016 couture ‘the snow maiden’

Seamstress, 1858-9 by Josef Mánes (Czech, 1820–1871)

Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi, Bronzino 

The Necklace, 1902 by Susan Watkins (American, 1875–1913)

— Friedrich Nietzsche  

A Morning Missive  Jef Leempoels