“The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.”
- Pythagoras
Ryan Brewer and AA Bronson
“White”, 2013
photographed by Matthias Herrmann in the Magic Forest between Fire island Pines and Cherry Grove.
The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the treasures of evil. But there too is God, the angels, the life and the kingdom, the light and the apostles, the heavenly cities and the treasuries of grace—all things are there.
—St Macarius the Great
Prague, Knihovna Národního muzea v Praze, IV. B. 24, f. 71r. Jena Codex (late 15th century).
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Ram Singh II Maharaja of Jaipur (1833-1880)
Self Portrait, 1856
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Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Saint Sebastian, c. 1612
c86:
Taken from an anthology entitled Prince of Darkness, 1946
The illustrations are details from The Temptation of St Anthony, an etching by Jacques Callot, 1630
Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy in 1967
Photo by I. Bessi
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Time Smoking a Painting, William Hogarth
Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), Ryan Brewer 2013.
Toxic masculinity is damaging to men, too, positing them as stoic sex-and-violence machines with allergies to tenderness, playfulness, and vulnerability. A reinvented masculinity will surely give men more room to express and explore themselves without shame or fear.
Friedman, Male Toxicity (via practicenap)
Sun Ra on location in California for Space is the Place,early 1970s
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