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i met one of my aunt's archaeologist friends/colleagues earlier today & he was telling me about legends that not too far from here there's the ghosts of a roman legion that people see walking up the cliff towards the edge of the sea and then off the edge of the cliff and onwards, because the coastline has receded so much since roman times that the 'land' they're used to walking on goes on far past the point it falls into the sea today. and like. OUGH. I don't even strictly believe in that type of ghost but I'm Obsessed with this image of them still interacting with landscape that has crumbled into the sea & completely disappeared over the thousands of years since they were alive. ghost landscapes Real

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Elle Fanning wearing an Alexander McQueen dress.  Photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue, June 2017

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Lavish obi with beautiful zakuro (pomegranate) embroidered on black base.

The embroidery is quite unusual, with a lot of different stiches bringing texture to the design.

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John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)

La Belle Dame sans Merci

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Little Ginkgo studies: Embroidered artwork by Meredith Woolnough

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Kwaidan (1964) dir. Masaki Kobayashi

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Legend of Ruyi costumes

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Psychogeographies by Dustin Yellin commissioned by the New York City Ballet

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Beatrice Wanjiku, Red Nude, 2005

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Lil Dagover in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

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“Healing Grotto” by Cindy Baedman

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Libuše Šafránková as Cinderella – Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)

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Cover designs for Hans Holbein the Younger's Alphabet of Death, bound in a most unusual manner in 1895 by Paul-Romain Raparlier (not for the squeamish).

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Deer Beds - Katherine Wolkoff (2007)