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Alphonse Marie Mucha “Four Seasons”

forever in awe of people who pay attention. people who wait for you while you tie your shoes while the others have walked away. when they continue listening intently while the rest of the group stopped listening. noticing your moments of silence when everyone else hasn’t. “this made me think of you” noticing things you never even noticed about yourself. people who say “text me when you get home safe.” people who make you laugh until you cry. childhood friends who keep in touch. people with genuine intentions. people who are soft when the world has given them every opportunity to turn hard. the “let’s get ice cream” at 3am friend. the turn up the music in the car and sing friend. people whose actions match their words. people who make the world feel less chaotic. kindred spirits. the trustworthy and honest. hard workers. good listeners. clear communicators. people who love you for who you are. people who don’t ask you to be anything other than yourself. people who choose you. people who stay.

Nevil Maskelyne, First filmed eclipse. 1900

Solar eclipse filmed on 28 May, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne , while on an expedition by The British Astronomical Association to North Carolina. In 1898 he travelled to India to photograph an eclipse. He succeeded but the film can was stolen

Alphonse Mucha

Calendrier Champenois. Colour lithograph, 1897 / Sarah Bernhardt in the role of La Tosca. Colour lithograph, 1899.

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume IV (1944-1947)

Photographed by Elizaveta Porodina for PUBLIC Editions March 2024

Transparents

I beleive these are from the Flower Fairy books by Cicely Mary Barker

Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Mohammad Shaheen), Like a Hand Tattoo in an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet

not love at first sight, but soul recognition

Details from Arthur Rackham’s illustration “And now they never meet in grove or green,” (1908) from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra  (via conceptvals)

Italian Venetian Grotto (19th cent.) silver gilt settee with triple seashell seat and dolphin & seahorse motif (att: Pauly et Cie, Venice)

A Nixie in the Well frightens an old woman' by R. M. Euchler, (1872-1947)

Seed heads in old glass bottles ~ Brigit Strawbridge

Circe by Louis Chalon (1888)