John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
Near York, 1882
Winter in a Dutch town, Adrianus Eversen
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket, 1875
Past and Present, 1858 by Augustus Leopold Egg (English, 1816–1863)
The first painting depicts a husband finding out about his wife’s adultery, second and third depict the same night five years later after the husband’s death. The girls are all alone (their father kicked their mother out of the house) and their mother is homeless with a young child.
May your journey through the wild woodlands of your heart lead you to yourself.
(via worldofcelts)
the waitomo limestone caves on new zealand’s northern island are home to an endemic species of bioluminescent fungus gnat (arachnocampa luminosa, or glow worm fly) who in their larval stage produce silk threads from which to hang and, using a blue light emitted from a modified excretory organ in their tails, lure in prey who then become ensnared in sticky droplets of mucus. photos by dylan toh & marianne lim, spellbound tours, martin rietze and z blue polaris
“’Okay, I trust you. I trust you, human, and now you can come into my octopus world.’ And she’s moving towards me and my natural instinct to gently back away. And then I just wanted to keep still, so I held onto a rock. She just kept coming and then covered my whole hand. I’d been underwater for quite a long time, so I just gently pushed for the surface, thinking she would move off my hand. But she didn’t. She just rode my hand right to the surface. There I was, just staring into the eyes of this incredible creature.”
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
