Henry Singleton. Ariel on a Bat's Back, 1819

Frida Kahlo. What I Saw in the Water, 1938

I’ve been reading ‘Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend’, by Thomas Mann. Just now I had to read this several times over …

PJ Harvey & Björk performing (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction at the Brit Awards, 1994

"Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness." ~ Charles Baudelaire Nicola Samorì. Povero di Sole, 2012

Georgia O'Keeffe. White Flower, 1929

Edward Weston. Civilian Defence, 1942

"listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go" ~ e e cummings René Magritte. The Unexpected Answer, 1932

"Music opens a path into the realm of silence." ~ Josef Pieper Janis Joplin, photo by Art Kane, 1968

Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas, 1945

Georgia O'Keeffe. Red and Pink, 1925

Georgia O'Keeffe's hands, photo by Alfred Stieglitz, 1919

Marilyn Monroe, photo (detail) by André de Dienes, 1946

Hans Namuth. Untitled

Georgia O'Keeffe. Jack-in-the-Pulpit Abstraction No. 4, 1930

Sōretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses), Toshio Matsumoto (1969)

"Ah, all these thoughts, all this peculiar yearning, this seeking, this stretching out of hands toward a meaning. Let it all dream, let it all sleep. I'll simply let it come. Let it come." ~ Robert Walser Aigana Gali. Turquoise Meditator, 2022

Nina Hagen performing 'Naturträne', 1979

Kachemak Bay in Alaska, aerial video by Jan Erik Waider

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden. Sicilian Boy with Lily Crown and Halo, 1899

Tina Modotti. Staircase, 1924-26

Tina Modotti. Roses, Mexico, 1924

Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. Photo illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1905

Glenn Branca leading his Symphony No. 5 at The Kitchen, NYC, 1984

"I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow." ~ Fernando Pessoa Andrew Wyeth. Wind from the Sea, 1947

Einstürzende Neubauten performing 'Autobahn' in West Berlin, 1984

This was the last song written by Johnny Cash and it was recorded during his final day in a recording studio before his death a few weeks later.

Segment from Strike Up the Band, directed by Busby Berkeley, 1940

Edvard Munch. Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895

Albrecht Dürer. Self-portrait, 1500

CAN performing Vitamin C, 1973

Frame from 'Blue', directed by Derek Jarman, 1993

John Dickson Batten. The Garden of Adonis - Amoretta and Time, 1887

NOPE 🚫

"Just slow things down and it becomes more beautiful." ~ David Lynch

Patti Smith performing Horses, 1976

Archie Shepp

René Magritte. Not to Be Reproduced, 1937

Leonard Cohen and Julie Felix performing Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye, 1967

Get Well Soon

Man Ray. Anatomies, 1929

"Your future self is watching you right now through your memories." ~ Aubrey de Grey René Magritte. The False Mirror, 1928

Léonard Misonne. La vie est dure, 1933