Johan Hagemeyer Talisman Rose, 1936 [tinted petals, raised one at left shading center of bloom] gelatin silver print

“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. We’re here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to to talk about the past at all.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

Brook Power shot on film by Shannon Cavarocchi

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

“I turned around and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it.”

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Portrait of Benvenuti Gonzalez del Campillo, 1920, Carlos Saenz de Tejada

https://www.wikiart.org/en/carlos-saenz-de-tejada/portrait-of-benvenuti-gonzalez-del-campillo-1920

Where have you gone without me? Carolle Bénitah

Word on the street, Roger S. Echegoyén-Aruajo

Jalal Sepehr - Water and Persian Rugs, 2004

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“because / Of the Beloved / I come into being.”

— Gregory Orr, from “Her eye and my ‘I’”, How Beautiful the Beloved

The Women, 1895, Edvard Munch

Medium: drypoint,paper

Marya Hornbacher, Waiting

Clashing Squirrel (because)