'Blue Pine Trees in the Rising Sun', 2016, Japanese and Chinese paint, gold and copper leaves on Japanese cardboard, by Mizutani Rumi (水谷るみ), a contemporary Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter of French-Japanese heritage.

Robert Macpherson · Tivoli: Waterfall (c. 1860)

i hold the ability to return to myself

time to bear it girls

Jordan Arthur Smith: Post Human Prelude (2022)

The Arming and Departure of the Knights

tapestry of wool and silk, on cotton warp, designed by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones c. 1894

I breathe, and the mouth

Veil stirs its curtain
My eye
Veil is

A concatenation of rainbows.
I am his.
Even in his

Absence, I
Revolve in my
Sheath of impossibilities,

Priceless and quiet
Among these parakeets, macaws!

Sylvia Plath · “Purdah.” The Collected Poems (1981)

you would not believe the yellows this generous world gives us

. . . for what could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death . . .

Virginia Woolf · To the Lighthouse (1927)

parade

Masjid-i Jami’ (Isfahan, Iran). Photo by Robert Byron, 1933/34.

Wolfgang Tillmans
Icestorm
2001
Image courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, New York / Hong Kong, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne, Maureen Paley, London

Gertrude Fehr · Nu debout, Paris (1936)