Death And The Maiden.

a sculpture of Mary with crystals by Kyle Montgomery

#art #saint&sinner #thevirginandthewhore

Frank Papé illustration for Thaïs, Anatole France, 1890

Frozen River

2023

©juri

from a reprint of the 1976 picture book Takeru by Masakane Yonekura

“When you left you took almost everything. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be.”

— Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski, “The Poet,” from Slouching Toward Nirvana

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]

#blackandwhite #noir #foggynights

photo: David Castenson

#candelight #lightinthedark #bythesea #lonely