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To Virginia Woolf

Long Barn Monday [16 September]

I dreamed last night that you and Leonard had never been really married, and that you decided it was high time to hold the ceremony. So you had a fashionable wedding. You were dressed in a robe of mediaeval cut, made of cloth-of-gold, and you wore a long veil, and had an escort of bridesmaids and pages. You did not invite me to the wedding. So I stood in the crowd, and saw you pass on Leonard’s arm. For some reason or reasons (not far to seek) this dream made me extremely miserable, and I woke in tears, and have not yet thrown off the effect of it.

#virginia woolf #vita sackville west #vita and virginia

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1894-1901 Portrait of four young women (photo by C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C.)

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

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challengers written by justin kuritzkes

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taking pictures ,, taking pictures of people ,, taking pictures of people taking pictures ,, taking pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures

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The Changing of the Seasons By Saint Hildegard

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Illustration from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for Andrew Lang’s The Blue Poetry Book by Lancelot Speed (1891)

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Leather belt by me on Marz

Wearing: Eliza gallo

Shot by: Madeline Hampton

Photo assist: Max Ruben

Set design: Eliza gallo

Set assist: Benjamin Zumbrun

Style assist: Aliyah Bruchette

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Era Leisner (Norwegian,b.1988)

Reeds, 2024

Acrylics on canvas

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Maori women, New Zealand, c. 1900.

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Pilar Albarracín, “She-wolf” (2006): a vaguely shamanic-looking performance reminiscent of Joseph Beuy’s I Like America and America Likes Me, in which she shares picnic with a wolf in a gallery setting. The Spanish artist has explored various feminist themes that raise questions of domestication and the domestic codification of life. Her most recent works recreate portraits in the manner of Frida Kahlo. This exhibition at the Galería Filomena Soares was shown alongside her installations involving kitchenware. I’m reminded of the American artist Kiki Smith’s eccentric explorations of womanhood through folklore, and pagan witchcraft, especially her depictions of wolves, wolf/women hybrids and bestiality, archetypal associations of womankind with wild untamed nature. With mankind’s desire to dominate nature, woman’s confinement to the kitchen space appears analogous to the taming of a wild beast, only Albarracín translates the confinement of the kitchen space into the confinement of the gallery space.

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The Doubt, 1907-8 by Giacomo Balla (Italian, 1871–1958)

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Gabbriette for Breach Magazine (2023) Photography: Jason Thomas Geering

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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh, Susan Sontag.

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Larrabee State Park, near Bellingham, Washington, May, 1973

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Sculpture by Ryo Arai

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So Fox News ran a story about how they think libraries are turning into drug-infested sex dens and I am shocked, shocked that I was never offered any drugs during my 15+ years working in libraries.