#sculpture #art #darkacademia

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.]

#candelight #lightinthedark #bythesea #lonely

Pour into what I know will not be filled.

𝙸 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝙸’𝚖 𝙾𝚔𝚊𝚢

𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝙸’𝚖 𝚘𝚔𝚊𝚢,

𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚋 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘

𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛

𝚊𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠

𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍.

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

The church, the steeple, without any people.

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

#art #saint&sinner #thevirginandthewhore

Frank Papé illustration for Thaïs, Anatole France, 1890

Kokoshnik is a traditional Russian headdress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan, primarily worn in the northern regions of Russia in the 16th to 19th centuries.

Кокошник -  (от слав. «кокош», обозначавшего курицу и петуха,старинный русский головной убор в виде гребня (опахала, полумесяца или округлого щита) вокруг головы, символ русского традиционного костюма.