Queer Spirits

illuminatizeitgeist: “The experience of life in a finite,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:30:24 -0400

“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”,...

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:27:00 -0400

Ryan Brewer and AA Bronson

“White”, 2013

photographed by Matthias Herrmann in the Magic Forest between Fire island Pines and Cherry Grove.

The hermit.

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:22:20 -0400

The hermit.

signum-crucis: The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet...

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:23:29 -0400

signum-crucis:

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

toinelikesart: Rudolf Nureyev 1961, Richard Avedon...

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:20:04 -0400

toinelikesart:

Rudolf Nureyev 1961,

Richard Avedon (photographer)

Ancestor

blackpaint20: Prague, Knihovna Národního muzea v Praze, IV. B....

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:45:19 -0400

blackpaint20:

Prague, Knihovna Národního muzea v Praze, IV. B. 24, f. 71r. Jena Codex (late 15th century).

les-sources-du-nil: Ram Singh II Maharaja of Jaipur...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:27:23 -0400

les-sources-du-nil:

Ram Singh II Maharaja of Jaipur (1833-1880)

Self Portrait, 1856

necspenecmetu: Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Saint Sebastian, c....

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:35:44 -0400

necspenecmetu:

Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Saint Sebastian, c. 1612

c86: Taken from an anthology entitled Prince of Darkness,...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:35:41 -0400

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

via Front Free Endpaper

laflaneuse8: Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy in...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:35:14 -0400

laflaneuse8:

Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy in 1967

Photo by I. Bessi

nevver: Time Smoking a Painting, William Hogarth

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:21:24 -0400

nevver:

Time Smoking a Painting, William Hogarth

cosmic-compass: Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), Ryan Brewer...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:54:38 -0400

cosmic-compass:

Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), Ryan Brewer 2013.

machinegnome: tree

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:53:19 -0400

machinegnome:

tree

"Toxic masculinity is damaging to men, too, positing them as stoic sex-and-violence machines with..."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:04:43 -0400

“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)

cloudnoise: pictureboxinc: Sun Ra on location in California...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:37:33 -0400

cloudnoise:

pictureboxinc:

Sun Ra on location in California for Space is the Place,early 1970s

PLEASE

"For me, queer means radiant darkness, radical love, and a million and one ways to resist and..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:19:59 -0400

“For me, queer means radiant darkness, radical love, and a million and one ways to resist and decolonize. Queer is imbued with deep spirituality and sweetness.”

- Edward Ndopu (via riseabovethemadness)

ifthisbemagic: Austin Osman Spare

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:13:27 -0400

ifthisbemagic:

Austin Osman Spare

"I heard you in the other room asking your mother, ‘Mama, am I a Palestinian?’ When she answered..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:36:45 -0400

“I heard you in the other room asking your mother, ‘Mama, am I a Palestinian?’ When she answered ‘Yes’ a heavy silence fell on the whole house. It was as if something hanging over our heads had fallen, its noise exploding, then – silence. Afterwards…I heard you crying. I could not move. There was something bigger than my awareness being born in the other room through your bewildered sobbing. It was as if a blessed scalpel was cutting up your chest and putting there the heart that belongs to you…I was unable to move to see what was happening in the other room. I knew, however, that a distant homeland was being born again: hills, olive groves, dead people, torn banners and folded ones, all cutting their way into a future of flesh and blood and being born in the heart of another child…Do you believe that man grows? No; he is born suddenly – a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood onto the ruggedness of the road.”

- Ghassan Kanafani, in a letter to his son (via fala7idreams)

therurrjurr: Draupadi with her five husbands - the Pandavas....

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:13:55 -0400

therurrjurr:

Draupadi with her five husbands - the Pandavas. The central figure is Yudhishthira; the two on the bottom are Bhima and Arjuna. Nakula and Sahadeva, the twins, are standing.

Painting by Raja Ravi Varma, c. 1900.

frommadon: Islamic Calendar India, Deccan, 1891 Ink,...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:12:21 -0400

frommadon:

Islamic Calendar

India, Deccan, 1891

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Sheet: 15 3/8 x 22 1/2 in. (39.05 x 57.15 cm); Image: 13 5/8 x 20 7/8 in. (34.61 x 53.02 cm)

Indian Art Special Purpose Fund (M.89.21)

South and Southeast Asian Art