execution.style

by Alessio Albi

i hate it when someone asks me what my favorite work of art is because i can't say "the one of the woman chilling on the rocks with a dragon lying in her lap and giving off powerful big dick energy" but how else am i supposed to describe it

this is the definition of living deliciously

This is Dragon Resting It's Head On The Lap of a Woman by Robert Leinweber

Born this day, amidst the first harvest, a hedge time, a threshold time. August, that death-touched month, that bated breath month, that twilight month, the golden sun setting behind me, a crown upon my brow, gazing into the gaping yawn of the dark. August, the trickster, the paradox, we dance drunkenly upon thy soft beds of bluebell and buttercup, our feet pounding the great drum of decay below. We fill our mouths with blood-cast berries, pluck wild garlic from viridian pastures, fill the larder, stock the cellar, split the wood. I was born in the reaping month, a new life amid preparations for death. How it has molded me. To harvest life is to swallow death.

O’ death, I draw nearer to thee, but first, I live. IG: @sarah.petkus

*please be respectful, do not remove credit.

— White Oleander, Janet Fitch (via decreation)

Domenico Tintoretto, The Penitent Magdalene, 1598-1602 c. (details)

By Tomarum

С л е п о т а м о т ы л ь к о в by Shirø Igarashi (Nina Ippolitova)

If you won’t wear a vial of my blood then what’s the point

update: apparently canberra’s skywhale was harpooned and died 

Local resident Michelle Bedford says what she saw can only be described as ‘incredibly unlikely’ and ‘bizarrely beautiful’.

“The guy got on the roof of his van with a crazy look in his eyes I’ve never seen before, as if in his universe there was only him and the Skywhale. He hurled the broomhandle like a harpoon, got it right through the eye.

“We all clapped and cheered, not like we hate the Skywhale or anything but it was just unbelievably cool.”

It then took several hours for security staff and onlookers to disentangle Ahab from the corpse of the Skywhale which had slowly but majestically fallen directly on top of him, like a heavenly blanket with massive breasts.

The sculpture, a hot air balloon depicting a whale as it may have evolved if it lived in the air rather than the sea, has had a mixed reception since it was first launched in 2013. Critics of the Skywhale cited its outlandish appearance, large breast-like appendages and ‘dumb, smug whale face’.

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Artist Patricia Piccinini, who designed the sculpture, has asked that charges not be pressed against Mr Ahab, claiming that she was “invigorated” to see the public engaging with the artwork on such a meaningful level and that she couldn’t ask for a “more fitting way for a big balloon that looks like a whale to complete its lifecycle in the public eye.”

When asked if the ‘killing’ of the Skywhale had any allegorical significance or if the quest to find and destroy it was in some way symbolic of a larger tale Mr Ahab told reports “Nah mate, just f-ing hate that bloody whale.”

….This. THIS is art. 

when you guys said this thing had breast-like appendages yall really weren’t joking huh?

x

— Unknown (via stevenbong)

Jason W. Blake

Art Aquarium Exhibition in Tokyo

Visitors watch “kingyo,” or goldfish, swimming in a polyhedral aquarium on the opening day of the Art Aquarium Exhibition in Tokyo. The annual exhibition produced by Hidetomo Kimura was the collaboration of Japan’s old Edo period atmosphere, modern technology and the kingyo, the organizer said.

Snowing at sea

Why do I never think about the possibility of snow on the ocean??? Now I see why, because it’s too ethereal