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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:48:20 -0400

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:19:47 -0400

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:19:25 -0400

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mentalcollageshit: Tenía una mirada tan pura, tan clara, unos...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:19:01 -0400

mentalcollageshit:

Tenía una mirada tan pura, tan clara, unos labios sinceros, no se correspondía con la realidad.

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lucanecerf-volant: Danse Macabre by Art & Ghosts

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:14:21 -0400

lucanecerf-volant:

Danse Macabre by Art & Ghosts

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lucanecerf-volant: Salvador Dali 1953

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:13:09 -0400

lucanecerf-volant:

Salvador Dali

1953

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:12:08 -0400

ornamentedbeing: I pride myself on always having words to...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:59:07 -0400

ornamentedbeing:

I pride myself on always having words to describe something and yet they have failed me, I feel at an utter loss to describe the glory of this gown.

The romantic in me notes the symbolism of the butterfly. The metamorphosis from a child to a married woman. This gown reverberates with life and brings tears to my eyes.

I worry that sometimes I am to sensitive. I find that in my line of work I often have to think of the costume as it’s own entity, wondering about the life of the person who these items once adorned lead to so many questions. Many times I have wished that I had not pursued those thoughts to find out more on their life. I have been moved to tears of sorrow and anger at the unfairness of the treatment of women who came before me. I have discovered that they were prisoners in their beautiful silks, ensnared in brightly woven textiles, pinned alive and struggling for all to admire until at last they accepted their crepe veils and widows weeds before leaving this plane a broken being.

Yet I find myself hoping with every fibre of my being that whoever this woman was she had a beautiful and happy life. That the butterfly that graced the bodice on her wedding gown symbolized more than decoration, that it was true freedom from the cocoon. I’ll never know for sure but I will hope.

Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

c. 1890

If it is possible could I please request a translation on this gown also: アール・ヌーヴォー期のドレスで、胸を張り出し、腰を後方に突き出したＳ字型スタイル。胸には模造パールで蝶を表しているが、この時代には昆虫をモチーフとしたアクセサリーなども多く見られる。スカートの裾周りにはコードを入れてシルエットを整えており、細いウエストから裾に向かう波のようにうねった曲線が優雅で美しい。

vintagegal: Daisies (1966)

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:57:01 -0400

vintagegal:

Daisies (1966)

redwoodcollective: So around November a friend gave me a deer...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:56:25 -0400

redwoodcollective:

So around November a friend gave me a deer carcass for a project I’m in the process of cultivating. I left it hang in a tree over winter to dry out. Today, I went to take it down…but to my surprise, I found new life forming in the heart of death.

thehaleyscott: Saint Agatha - Blood of the Martyrs series

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:35:24 -0400

thehaleyscott:

Saint Agatha - Blood of the Martyrs series

meeresstille: by Riccardo Mannelli

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:35:07 -0400

meeresstille:

by Riccardo Mannelli

Kevin Champeny - What Remains(2012) - Hand-cast urethane...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:34:12 -0400

Kevin Champeny - What Remains(2012) - Hand-cast urethane flowers
Artist’s statement:

“I sculpted each original flower, then created silicone molds of the originals, then I cast them in color. They are not painted in any way. I cast them in various two part liquid resins. These pieces take several months to design, sculpt, mold, and cast. The construction process is a painstaking adventure of careful placement and gluing (super super-glue), that can take up to a month to complete.”

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:27:14 -0400

speciesbarocus: Central America as seen by Lukas Zpira.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:42:44 -0400

speciesbarocus:

Central America as seen by Lukas Zpira.

Aquí, una que hace más de un año no fumaba. #thatsmyshit #cigar...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:30:52 -0400

Aquí, una que hace más de un año no fumaba. #thatsmyshit #cigar #smoke #eyes #piercing #nostril #cat #cateye #snuff #look