Lilypads And Reflection, Hawaii, 1960s

“Skeleton Flowers” become transparent when it rains, when the leaves dry out they turn back to white.

by John Evans

adeline andre spring 1999 haute couture

La Venus triste (The Weeping Venus) (Ida Rubinstein) by Romaine Brooks, 1917

F. Holland Day Saint Sebastian

1907

Innocent ‘naughty’ French postcards from the 1920s.

Conditioning # 53 

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

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Various spencers & chemisettes, 1800′s