Category Archives: art

And after Desiree had ordered her hair she loosened her belt and laid it on the couch. In a few seconds her robe had dropped to the sand and she rose from the floods of dark purple, from the foam … Continue reading →

a bruise from another universe

Provenience: Oceania; Papua New Guinea; New Britain Materials: Human bone; Tooth; Clay; Fiber; Pigment Peabody Museum  

“…a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished.” — John Keats  

Let us enjoy endless pleasures with our lustful, insatiable eyes. — Paul Gauguin  

Woman Throwing a Snowball at a Girl Reading a Love Letter Date: late 1760s Artist/Maker: Suzuki Harunobu   Japanese, 1725 – 1770   Allen Memorial Art Museum

The Descent of the Star Ichi on the Thirteenth Night of the Ninth Month, from the series A Short Pictorial Biography of the Founder of the Nichiren Sect Date: mid 1830s Artist/Maker: Utagawa KuniyoshiJapanese, 1797 – 1861    

What I wish I’d been doing today (somewhere warm)