Evelyne Axell

Gary Hume, Begging For It, 1994

Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld, A Quiet Life

Born this day

Camilla Hey, Blue Ice in South Greenland

PJ Harvey & Björk, Satisfaction

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, The Souls of Acheron, 1898

Born this day

Photo by Brion Gysin, 1959

Richard Tennant Cooper, The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; symbolising typhoid, 1912

Dieric Bouts, The Fall Of The Damned, 1450

“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Xooang Choi, Islets of Aspergers Type VII (detail), 2008

Photo by Tim Peake, London, Midnight, Saturday, 30 January 2016

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment." ~ Søren Kierkegaard, the prototypical existentialist.

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Francis Danby, Shipwreck, 1850

"Our minds are sick."

The School of Life: Theodor Adorno

Luis Ricardo Falero, Twin Stars, 1881

One of my favourite books, now a movie.