this shit was that good.
Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam.
“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.
A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”
哀しみのベラドンナ? | Belladonna of Sadness 1973, dir. Eiichi Yamamoto
Can Sun: Perfect Lover (2023)
"La Pleureuse" (The Mourner)
Hakone, Japan
sha sha higby in the costume-maker's art: cloaks of fantasy, masks of revelation - thom boswell (1992)
believing that good can happen to you after a life of tragedy is the most painful thing you can choose. but it is necessary. because otherwise there is nothing else. you miss it all hiding
iris van herpen for 'neverwhere,' 2013 in new york city ballet: choreography + couture - marc happel + pari dukovic (2023)
Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature
c. 1870-95
by designer Reinhold Vasters
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
'carmela' by antonio riello, 2003 in eretica: the transcendent + the profane in contemporary art - demetrio paparoni (2007)
'george wright's garden in dorset, england' in livingsculpture - paul cooper (2001)
Journey into the Surreal: Virgil Finlay’s Illustration for ‘Famous Fantastic Mysteries’, 1943
Unknown, Love Token for Sarah Newlin, with Envelope, 1799