Azalée Sauvage.

Little girl kissing pet bird, ca. 1912

©Philomena Famulok

In The Reeds by Constant Puyo, 1903.

Mieko Shiomi, Mirror, 1963

Einar Erici • shoemaker, woodcarver, and fiddler Petrus Norling playing the violin • Uppsala, Sweden, 1938

Auroras glow above Jupiter and moon, 1981

Ron Miller

— Edgar Allan Poe 

Jordi Gual • his blind daughter Natasha

Andrew Wyeth

Dryad. 2007, tempera on panel, 107 x 123cm. Private Collection

Justine Kurland, The Mud Puddle (2001)

In every wood in every spring there is a different green.

E-MORTALITY / @blueskies-bluescreens / status of a steam user / death, virtual grief and your digital footprint by kelley edwards and johanna j. lunn / STurner4077 on twitter / the new forms of mourning: loss and exhibition of the death on the internet (2016) by julie alev dilmaç / description for all the ghosts in the machine: illusions of immortality in the digital age (2019) by elaine kasket

@fairycosmos

some snippets from notes on craft by lauren elkin, published in granta.

a short piece but it has shifted my view of how i personally journal and how i could be journaling! ‘a journal as a unit of measuring space’.. she also says later that it is the purest form of attention and i’m not sure i agree entirely but i definitely want to take some of that purpose into my writing in the future. journaling looking outwards!

[ID: First screenshot says, “I’m in love with the diary as a record of our joys and wonders. I even love the different terms for it – commonplace book, miscellany, mirabilary, occasional writings, adversaria – a term that’s fallen out of use, but derives from the Latin adversus, or a ‘turn toward’ (often in confrontation). A journal, we learn in Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces, is originally a unit of measuring space; it’s ‘the surface area a farm labourer can work in a day’. I love the diary because it knows itself to be a minor form; it isn’t trying to be anything but. It isn’t constructed, like a memoir; it is life as it happens. They tell us as much about the period the writer lived in as about the writer themselves. Though I”

Second screenshot says, “Growing up, I understood there to be a strict division between ‘writing’ – that is, novels – and what you wrote in your diary. It took encountering the work of two French writers, Georges Perec and Annie Ernaux, for me to begin to see that the writing that happened in the diary could itself be a means of publicly engaging with the world. Perec’s Attempt at Exhausting a Place in”

Bolded words are underlined in green, circled in red, or highlighted in red.]

Ten insects (including three species of dragonfly, a grasshopper, a wood-wasp, a frosted orange moth and a cricket). After Jacob Hoefnagel. Produced 1600-1620.

Watercolour.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

forest pages

Sophie Lécuyer (French, b. 1987, Épinal, France) - From series The Time Of Anemors, 2016  Etchings, Aquatints printed in Green Ink on Fabriano Paper