Gold annular brooch with rubies and sapphires, inscribed "IO SUI ICI EN LIU DAMI: AMO:' (I am here in the place of the friend I love)", French or English, 13th century
from The British Museum
Interstate 84 diary 70
Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?
okay im remembering this painting of like a tiny dog sitting in a big red armchair. and it was painted in 1920 by a german guy and the title was like augustus or claudius or something hearkening back to past imperial grandeur. does anyone know what im talking about searching “german dog sitting in chair painting” just gets me a bunch of bad photoshop novelty wall art ripping off dogs playing poker
A late Medieval silver ring probably Eastern European in origin.
With oval bezel, carved with a standing bird, it’s neck and head bent down, a star and crescent before it, the rim of the bezel and shoulders of the ring with decorative border.
Ron Hicks (American, 1965) - Café Kiss
Idyll by the fountain (Alexander Rothaug, 1870 - 1946)
I ask god to send a swordsman / and god says ‘look at your hands’
— Melissa Broder in “Problem Area” from Last Sext
- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Eve Malherbe - Kaleidoscope 1, 2020