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Chances are you’ve seen Fayum mummy portraits, the very realistic and warm panel paintings depicting the people of Roman Egypt between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD.

They’re breathtaking and very moving. Familiar faces, so human and so beautiful in their humanity. Most of them have been divorced from their purpose, torn from the bodies of the people they depict.

It is a different feeling entirely to see them in their original context.

This boy died before he could finish growing that mustache. Someone’s beloved son, crowned in golden laurels for all eternity, swaddled in linen. He is in there. The depiction of his face covers his face. The other portraits have lost their subject, greedily taken by those who wanted to admire their beauty without acknowledging the profound grief they represent.

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many people have rpf in their hearts but they're scared of it. this is tragic

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to be fair to Cain if nobody had ever died before and I didn't know it was possible I would probably also hit my brother over the head with a rock if he was being really annoying

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Clouds.

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"Painty Jeans" 5"x5" Acrylics, paint pen, and colored pencil on old jeans mounted on wood panel

My partner was tossing some old paint pants, so I turned them into a little guy!

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— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

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Whenever Bella left the Forks area code she got into so much avoidable nonsense

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you are an animal. you are an event. you are one decision away

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love them dearly <3

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Mary Oliver, from “I Worried”, Devotions

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milène sanchez, "there isn't time," 2023, oil on canvas

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