Margo Wolowiec 

“Cluster” (2018), Handwoven polymer, linen, dye sublimination ink, 38 x 28 inches

Robert Mapplethorpe: Orchid (1988)

‘sleep carves warm under the pelt’, embroidery on calico fabric, 2023 (instagram)

Marbled endpaper that evokes infinity. 1889.

source

Una and the Lion (Detail) from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, 1880. Oil on canvas — Briton Riviere (British, 1840-1920)

Peter Martin :: published in Figure magazine issue # 1, 1951. original src scanned magazine (flowers and puppies)

Happy Caturday!

Marbled newt (Triturus marmoratus) By: Heather Angel From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1980

“too much love” - photo sequence by katja kemnitz

#oh to be loved and worn down and turn into something else for it #still yourself but now fundamentally changed #rather be aware of your imperfection through love than remain perfect and unloved

actually slaughtered by this tag response thank you

“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

The Velveteen Rabbit — Margery Williams

Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932), Abstraktes Bild (903-7), 2008. Oil on canvas, 82 x 102 cm

Gaston Colin

at Atelier of Aristide Maillol, August 1907

El lenguaje del limbo II by Mariana Restrepo