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Sa'wkele headdress 

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A woman in an Amalia dress - the Greek national costume. Photo by Elias Pergantis.

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“I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.” Sally Mann, self-portrait, 1974

@Sally Mann

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Drawings for the ballet The Rite of Spring by Nicholas Roerich 

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Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)

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Dressing up a young woman from Zvolenská Slatina, Slovakia

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“добрались до зимнего солнцестояния — самого короткого дня года. С этого дня стартует цепь языческих и христианских аграрных праздников, странным образом перемешанных между собой. — Магические ритуалы, которые сопровождают эти праздники разнообразны 🤪: кидание башмаков за спину, сжигание чучел, блины, ночные гулянки и переодевания, призвание потусторонних существ или умерших родственников — обожаю вот это все. — Нравится, что даже в самый «серый» сезон мы сами добавляем себе ярких красок, игр и настроения. Всех с началом вечеринки!”

“We reached the winter solstice — the shortest day of the year. From this day on starts a chain of pagan and Christian agrarian holidays, strangely mixed with each other. The magical rituals that accompany these holidays are varied 🤪: throwing shoes behind the back, burning scarecrows, bliny, night parties and dressing up, calling otherworldly creatures or dead relatives - I adore all this. I like that even in the “grayest” season we add bright colors, games and set the right mood for ourselves. Everyone start the party!”

by Natasha Yankelevich

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Costumes of young and old Tatar townswomen, first half of the 19th c.

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The Horai were the goddesses of seasons and natural portions of time.

Chose to portray them as triplets this time. Of course, It would be fun to depict them as more "elemental", but I went with simple human designs for this. I plan to have them printed on my new thank-you cards soon. ✨

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traces of faith

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~ Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft.

Artist/Maker: Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died ca. 1479, active about 1451-1479)

Date: ca. 1469

Place of origin: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink.

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Too disgusted to offer any commentary on this.

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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Les saintes femmes au tombeau (The Holy Women at the Tomb or The Three Marys at the Tomb), 1890

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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Les saintes femmes au tombeau (The Holy Women at the Tomb or The Three Marys at the Tomb), 1890

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Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair / Keith S. Wilson, from "String Theory", Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love / Anne Michaels, from "Anna", The Weight of Oranges