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Ellen Rogers • Hecate

Karen Knorr & Olivier Richon • "The Vortex" • From their series “Punks!” • London, 1977

ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™@trahias.bsky.social · 18h ago

Damian Hovhannisyan [FLICKR]

Untitled (circa 2025) by Canadian artist Rebecca Aldernet (born in 1974). Rebecca Aldernet uses a mixed media approach, primarily combining oils and acrylics, alongside collage, pencil crayon, and mixed media on canvas or hardboard. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social · 4d ago

Have you ever wondered what it's like to study a dead language? Friends, I'm proud to share LENORA! A classical Latin codex curated for poets, writers, scholars & language lovers. Completely free, merely the soul of language. #poetrysky #latin 🏛️ Enter the Scriptorium: lenoralatin.org

Anita Andrzejewska

B&W photo showing a window frame with a tied-off curtain and dark interior on the left, on the right is a tall, thin and dark alcove with what, to me looks like a mannequin mummy inside. In the center is a doorway with thin, wooden double doors; one being open.

Watching ⸻ Laura Dern • Inland Empire, ‘06 ⸻ (was thinking about David Lynch today..)

Agnès Varda • Women's Congress, Havana, Cuba, January 11, ‘63

B&W photo, close-up and down in the seating, looking back at a rapt audience of young women, most likely their attention on a stage behind the photographer.

Masha Demianova

B&W photo of the interior of a natural history museum, at the corner of a room, lined with glass displays of various sized and species of fish skeletons and ephemera. standing against the far wall is a femme person with short, dark hair, a dark trenchcoat and big-ass boots.

Depth Noir @depthnoir.bsky.social · 7d ago

Gérard Uféras • ‘A Day in the Museum XXXIX - Jardin des Plantes, Paris’, ‘16

B&W photo with a huge carnivore dinosaur skull taking most of the frame. behind it, seen between its teeth is a young child's face, looking at the skull in total awe and wonderment.

Antigone Kourakou

B&W photo from above of a nude person sitting on a stairway with their back to the camera.

Depth Noir @depthnoir.bsky.social · 7d ago

Sara Ahmed, Selfcare as Warfare ⸻ "Some of us, Audre Lorde notes, were never meant to survive. To have some body, to be a member of some group, to be some can be a death sentence. When you are not supposed to live as you are, where you are, with whom you are with then survival is a radical action; ↓

Watching ⸻ Alice Krige • ‘Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life’, ‘95 ⸻ (really special film by the Quay brothers)

Costică Acsinte

B&W photo portrait of a young woman with short, flapper-like dark hair and wearing a dark, large collared blouse with a beaded necklace. She appears blind in her left eye, as it is completely clear. The photo itself has possibly been chemically damaged in spots around her face and along an edge.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. ⸻ Yohji Yamamoto

Olivier de Sagazan

B&W photo portrait of the artist without clothes but covered in clay and mud with heaps of clay mushed and molded about their head and face, almost making a surreal face itself, with sticks and branches sticking out of their head. Their hands are up near their face, as if presenting themselves theatrically.

David Galstyan

Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline @mickeybiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Betina La Plante

B&W photo portrait of a person wearing a white, mannequin-like mask with a cluster of gnarled thin branches surrounding it.

Fragmented (2026) Sono Una Fotografia On body, society, brokenness, and identity #classicmono #artofselfportraiture #blueskyartshow #glass #reflectionsliketruffaut

$Black and white photograph of a circular mirror behind a pane of shattered glass. Mickey’s hazy and fractured reflection is in the mirror.$

Sotiris Lamprou

B&W photo of a square mirror layed up against dark roots and grass. Reflected is a figure, arms wide in a field of tall grass.

Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Féebrile

Color photo of a woman in a white dress and elbow-length dark hair standing in near darkness with a door just slightly opened behind her with a light orange light glowing from within.

Painting by Lee Madgwick. 'Defiance' Oil/acrylic on canvas. Size 100 x 100cm.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

Unknown • From Wilfried Kaute’s book, ‘Murder in the City: New York, 1910–1920’ (Thomas Dunne Books, ‘17) ⸻ “Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.” ⸻ The Fountain, ‘06

Irina Ionesco

B&W of a woman looking sinister and sensual in her face, slightly down, looking at the camera over her left shoulder. Against her cheek is a decorated skull above roses and foliage.

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal