Das Feld hat Augen, der Wald hat Ohren— a German proverb; meaning ‘the field has eyes, the forest has ears’
#what i take from this: go to the fields when in want of silent companionship; go to the forest when in want of being listened to (via aemperatrix)
Luigi Serafini (Italian, b. 1949)
Imaginary Flora from Codex Seraphinianus, 1976-78
“One summer afternoon in 1978, a voluminous parcel arrived in the offices of the publisher in Milan… When we opened it we saw that it contained a large collection of illustrated pages depicting a number of strange objects… The accompanying letter explained that the author, Luigi Serafini, had created an encyclopedia of an imaginary world along the lines of a medieval scientific compendium: in a nonsensical alphabet which Serafini had also invented during two long years in a small apartment in Rome.”
– Alberto Manguel, History of Reading
Under Ice by Kate Bush
there’s something moving under
under the ice,
moving under ice – through water
trying to get out of the cold water
““…she couldn’t keep from remembering the summer night when they all slept outside on the patio. During the dog days, they hung giant hammocks on the patio, because of the unbearable heat. They set a large earthenware jar full of ice on a table and inside they placed a cut-up watermelon in case someone was hot and got up in the middle of the night wanting to eat a slice to cool down.””
— Laura Esquirel, Like Water for Chocolate (via lesgardenias)
Artwork by Marjorie Cameron in The Wormwood Star (Curtis Harrington, 1956)
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