“If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.”— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. July 1951
Johfra Bosschart - Zodiac Series (1974-1975) - PART II
As he made clear later in his own commentary (Astrology: Signs of the Zodiac), the paintings are more than illustrations of the traditional Zodiac. They combine signs and images from Cabbala, Magick, Alchemy and the Tarot to become a complex and graduated series of meditations. An acquaintance with the doctrines of Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism, and the Cabbala underlies their composition, and invites the viewer to contemplate these works as doorways to self-transcendence.
From top to bottom- Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces
Johfra Bosschart - Zodiac Series (1974-1975) - PART 1
As he made clear later in his own commentary (Astrology: Signs of the Zodiac), the paintings are more than illustrations of the traditional Zodiac. They combine signs and images from Cabbala, Magick, Alchemy and the Tarot to become a complex and graduated series of meditations. An acquaintance with the doctrines of Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism, and the Cabbala underlies their composition, and invites the viewer to contemplate these works as doorways to self-transcendence.
From top to bottom - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo
“Winged Prism” by Christian Spencer, taken in the Brazilian Rainforest in 2014.
(Source: sixpenceee)
Floral Prestige - Noah Desmond (b. 1969)
oil painting | source:
Leonora Carrington (Mexican, born England, 1917-2011)
Temple of the Word, 1954
Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 99.1 × 80 cm
Tracey Emin, Birds 2012 London Olympic Print, 2011
Lil April Jade / 21 y.o. / I’d tell her so very many things…
21 years old driving to L.A. with this and Cat Power / You Are Free on rotation. Writing bad poetry in a journal my BFF and I shared. Living on a sailboat. Oh my heart. Oh the nostalgia. Those smog sunset skies and the late night beach walks full of introspection.
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Helen Lundeberg -Poetic Justice, 1945
Helen Lundeberg - Oracle 1966
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise.