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blackberry blossoms photographed by benjamin t. gault, c. 1890.
'stag lying down,' rosa bonheur, french, c. 1875-85.
Chambered tomb, St Lythans, Glamorgan
'Lilla Weneda' illustration by Michael Elwiro Andrioli inspired by Juliusz Slowacki 's Romantic tragedy Lilla Weneda, 1879.
Art by Koji Ikuta
will you remember me?
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You be the judge of how my vintage wizard collection is materializing.
We need to change how we view the Anthropocene. While human impact is ubiquitous, it does not mean all interactions have led to destruction. This mindset distances both us from nature and nature from us. In contrast, the mindset of indigeneity sees humans as part of nature and has evolved technologies that use biodiversity as a building block. A new mythology of technology in the era of the Anthropocene can replace the pending threat that Nature will destroy us with the optimism that a collaboration with Nature can save us.
Julia Watson, Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism
Manuscript Case | European (Medieval style) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Roadside ruins of Summerset
Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online
Art by Joseph Watmough
Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops
by Jules Prater
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I’ve collected quite a few vintage dragons – see what treasures they’re guarding!
The Colosseum on a Monnlit Night, c.1830 by Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789–1869)
Ideal Landscape with a Young Man Killing a Snake (Franz Caucig, 1810)
“The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. […] We observe a fraction of the process, like hearing the vibration of a single string in an orchestra of supergiants. We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands and millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint. It has been described as a symphony in geometry, but we lack the ears to hear it.”
— Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Illustrations by Tanadori Yokoo, 1975.
Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches (William Holbrook Beard, 1824 - 1900)
Hans Poelzig: "The Great Theater" (1919)