endless-unfolding:

Rebecca Solnit, from A Field Guide to Getting Lost

design-is-fine:

Lena Meyer-Bergner, design no. 4/39 “Diagonal”, for a knotted carpet, 1938. Geneve, Switzerland. Via Antiquariat Schneider.

theancientwayoflife:

~ Hand-Shaped Stamp.
Place of origin: Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas
Culture: Olmec
Date: 1000-600 B.C.
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic.

tlatollotl:

Jaguar effigy pottery vessel

Guanacaste-Nicoya culture

Period VI, 1000–1350

Object Place: southwestern Nicaragua/northwestern Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya region

Human-feline effigy jar portraying the transformed animal spirit form of a shamanic practitioner. Elements of the pose and body painting on the limbs recall figural portrayals of female shamans typical of the Nicoya-Guanacaste ceramic art tradition.

MFA

killeds:

Yohji Yamamoto S/S 2009 / Doru Covrig “Hands”

withoutyourwalls:

Joan Levinson

sideeffectsinclude:

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980