The Velvet Jetpack Series by Artist John Keddie | On Tumblr | Buy Prints |
A velvet jetpack sounds like a marvelous way to travel. I’d love one.
Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Marat (detail), 1793. Oil on canvas
The letter reads (in French) “Il suffit que je sois bien malheureuse pour avoir droit a votre bienveillance” or in English, “Because I am unhappy, I have a right to your help”
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AUSPICE
[noun]
1. (Latin: auspicium from auspex); literally “one who looks at birds”, a diviner who reads omens from the observed flight of birds.
2. Often Auspices: a favourable sign or propitious circumstance.
3. Generally Auspices: patronage; support; sponsorship.
CATALEPSY
[noun]
(from Greek, κατάληψις “catch”); a nervous condition characterised by muscular rigidity and fixity of posture regardless of external stimuli, as well as decreased sensitivity to pain. Catalepsy is also a term used by hypnotists to refer to the state of making a hypnotised subject’s arm, leg or back rigid. “Arm catalepsy” is often a pre-hypnotic test performed prior to an induction into a full trance.
Vincent van Gogh - A Corner of the Garden of St Paul’s Hospital at St Rémy, 1889. Pencil, pen and ink on paper
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Tiny Story by LifeAboveTheWaterline
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On this field there lies a parking lot
And under that parking lot there lies a story
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Roy Lichtenstein - Bull Series; I-VI, 1973. Lithograph, screenprint and linocut on paper.
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Tiny Story by thedustdancestoo
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pity had a party,
but only invited himself.
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