''With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.''

Louis Valtat




Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in 
the nook of a cousin universe I’ve never defiled or betrayed anyone. 
Here I have two hands and they are vanishing, the hollow of your back 
to rest my cheek against, your voice and little else but my assiduous fear to cherish.



Francesco Furini




Vlaho Bukovac






George Wesley Bellows

Alejandro Marco


''This story is no good, I'm almost beginning to believe it.''


Rupert Bunny


John Singer Sargent


 Carl Spitzweg

Ferdinand Knab


 "clear to me at last that 
the dark I have always struggled to keep under 
is in reality my most..." ___ "precious ally".


Arthur Streeton


Jean-Charles Cazin






Henri Le Sidaner


Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny 




Rippl Rónai József





"For to know nothing is nothing, 
not to want to know anything likewise, 
but to be beyond knowing anything, 
to know you are beyond knowing anything, 
that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.''


Valentine Serov





1. excerpt from a poem of Bob Hicok
title and all other quotes by Samuel Beckett

&&

Mary Oliver

The spirit

  likes to dress up like this:

   ten fingers, 

   ten toes,

shoulders, and all the rest

  at night

   in the black branches,

     in the morning

in the blue branches

  of the world.

   It could float, of course,

     but would rather

plumb rough matter.

  Airy and shapeless thing,

   it needs 

     the metaphor of the body,

lime and appetite,

  the oceanic fluids;

   it needs the body's world,

     instinct

and imagination

  and the dark hug of time,

   sweetness

     and tangibility,

to be understood,

  to be more than pure light

   that burns

     where no one is --

so it enters us --

  in the morning

   shines from brute comfort

     like a stitch of lightning;

and at night

  lights up the deep and wondrous

   drownings of the body

     like a star.

Attended by roses, By kisses, by cherubim, By whatever these pink things mean.

Edouard Vuillard






Olga Antonova


Cheri Wollenberg






Tamara de Lempicka


Otis William Oldfield 


Claudio Bravo




Frederick Frieseke


Bernhard Gutmann


L Wright


Frederick Frieseke






Edouard Vuillard




Dinane Demirci

Peter Pohle


Becky Joy


Heidi Shedlock


Jo Headington





Sarah Wimpers



Kay Crain


Alice Mumford


Hugo Grenville

title- S. Plath
1. - from a poem of Mary Oliver
2345 - from a poem of Wallace Stevens