weatherwax:

studio wall filled with this beautiful series of small b/w work on paper

Vince Contarino

weatherwax:

N. Dash, Figure 1. N. Dash, Commuter, 2011
Graphite on paper, 14 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, 
2012

Photo: Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert

“Every Angel is a Terror,” Rilke

Denn das Schöne ist nichts 

als des Schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen, 

und wir bewundern es so, weil es gelassen verschmäht, 

uns zu zerstören. Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich. 

antiquatedremains:

Structures - II

© S. Wilson - 2013

Serpentine

nardotinoniel:

Milky Way around y Cassiopeiae (1914; more here)

stevenhess:

Serpentine

Otto Marseus van Schrieck, A Forest Floor Still-Life (1666)

suspicious-fern:

“Creation Starts Spontaneously” from “Utriusqui cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica,” Robert Fludd. 1617

asymptotic-silence:

jan švankmajer, {1981} zánik domu usherů

gifs from:

nardotinoniel:

Walker Evans

Matthew Barney
KHU: Djed, 2011
Brush and ink, gold leaf, iron, and lapis lazuli on black paper in polyethylene frame
12 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 27.3 x 3.2 cm)

Mundas Subterraneus, 1665, Athanasius Kircher

“Water, Fire; Fire, Water; mutually, as it were, cherish one another; and by a certain unanimous consent, conspire to the Conservation of the Geocosm, or Terrestrial World.”

Florian & Michael Quistrebert
Bleach 5 , bleach on fabric, 38cm x 55cm, 2010