Bohemian Malachite Glass ~ Riedel Glassworks (1930s)

'Cupid And Death' by Bernard Picard, 1718. #Gothic #Classical #Eros #skeleton #18thCentury #artsky

"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life” Original post

#photography Muelle, Upon Tyne, Newcastle, 1952. #photographer Harry Morrison #HarryMorrison #retratos #minimalista #photooftheday

Edward Gorey #Caturday 🐈‍⬛

Asmat ancestral skull

The once-feral sisters Moonshine and Midnight #Caturday

Arnold Genthe #Caturday

Absolutely, what a feeling... #BookSky

‘The Freezing of the Sea, Antarctica.’ #Photography by Herbert George Ponting (1911).

Today's dopamine hit 📚 #Books #ArtBookAddiction

There was no answer.

Funerary urn with the Mexica god Tezcatlipoca. It was manufactured in a region near Toluca, Estado de Mexico, 1400–1521CE. Son of the creator couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, Tezcatlipoca was one of the most venerated gods in the Mexica pantheon. He embodied the duality between life and death.

Daria Petrilli (b.1970, Italy) Opium, 2020. oil on canvas.

RIP Anthony Head

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My Wall of Masks and other random bits n bobs

Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

Rind ~ M.C. Escher (1955)

I don't tend to get that many visitors to my home. I have chosen objects for the display cabinet in my living room to ensure I have less...

Hoverfly on Hogweed

Then There Appears a Singular Being, Having the Head of a Man On the Body of a Fish, plate 5 of 10 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79449/

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Farage told people to react with "cold hard rage" to the appalling murder of Henry Nowak. Since then multiple officers & a police dog have been injured in violent disorder. Sign the open letter now & tell him to stop stoking hate & division: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-hat...

Boris Karloff as the monster. ~ Jack Freulich (1931)

From Library of Dust ~ David Maisel A selection from approx 3500 corroded Copper canisters containing unclaimed cremation ashes of patients at Oregon State Insane Asylum who died between 1883 and 1970.

Twin Peaks: Cooper’s dream.

Hidden Mother revealed

The Solitude ~ Edward Hopper (1944)

Flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make sourdough bread www.cbsnews.com/news/oetzi-t...

Orphines ~ Julia Wytrazek (2026)

Midnight beneath part of my wall of masks

Gonna cut down on buying books he said ... 🙄 Though I previously argued that books were tools of my 'trade', I now also argue that they are medication/escape tunnel from all the insanity around and about. #Art #Books #MedicineForMelancholy

There is an argument that there is '2 Tier Policing' in the UK - if Farage wasn't a silver-spoon millionaire 'elite' surely he'd have been jailed for inciting the 2024 riots, but here he is doing it again.

Ok. So I open the back door to see if Midnight the semi-feral cat was in the yard. And this familiar is right at my door!!

Der Tod und das Mädchen” (Death and the Maiden) ~ unknown German artist (1962)

"Can you give me sanctuary? I must find a place to hide A place for me to hide Can you find me soft asylum? I can't make it any more The Man is at the door" 🚪🚪 Sanctuary Knocker - Durham Cathedral

Columbine

Charity shop present from my sister - a display cabinet only £5. Not sure yet what I will put in it, possibly my Uranium Glass and get some UV strips and perhaps some of my gemstones and fossils.

I'm like one of these codgers in this Gary Larson Far Side cartoon. I woke up with a banging bad head this morning that did not shift until it started thundering.

Lord Eight Earthquake, Zapotec urn was found in the House of the Altars of ​​Atzompa, Oaxaca. A young individual seated with his legs crossed and his hands on his knees. His lizard headdress incorporates elements representing a butterfly, which would indicate a metamorphic nature for the figure.

Print by contemporary Polish artist Laura Makabresku #WomensArt

I am old enough to remember when Epsom printers were decent value for money, not flimsy, faulty, frustrating clumps of shit. Everything in almost every sphere seems worse and shoddier now than decades back 😬

The waning gibbous 97.9% at 3.31 AM (UTC+7).

Still rueing the day that I passed up on the chance to own this Antique wax head displaying syphilitic chancres on the tongue. Was on e-bay for £200. Seller sent me an offer of £150. Both excellent prices but I ummed and ahhed because I tend to spend a Lot Lot less on weird collectible items.