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ezgi şener | untitled, 2022 | mixed media

@eezgisener

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Contour plowing, a farming practice that works with the slopes of the land, is an effective means of soil management which helps to prevent soil erosion, Wyoming, United States. Photo by Emory Kristof. National Geographic, July 1976. 

via @geoarchive_

https://www.instagram.com/likalinea/

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Chema Mendez aka Mendez Mendez (Dominican, b. Dominican Republic, based Bavaro, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) - Growing, Digital Art

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the forest is a lung. it is a brain. it is a great organism made up of moving parts. when you walk through the forest, you are not in a place. you are in a being, traveling through its arteries while it breathes and thinks around you. the forest feels your presence. it knows that you are there.

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Bill Rubino | North Georgia Mountais, Appalachia | photography

@billrubino

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Having internet friends is an experience. Did you eat today? I can’t believe your sister hasn’t apologized yet, what a bitch. Drink a glass of water right now. Want to see a cat picture? I love you. I know you better than your parents. I don’t know your name. I’m having a rough day, can you talk to me about your favorite videogame? I love you. Good morning means good night means good afternoon means go to sleep. Here’s a doodle I made in class. I’m stealing your clothes as we speak, they’re so pretty. I love you. I love your pet. What does your hair look like? I’d love to see that weird leaf. I love you. I’m making you your favorite food. Thank you for holding my secrets for me. I love you. We’re having a coffe date. I love you. I’m giving you a screen-sized hug. I love you. I love you. I love you.

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The photo is not very good and I still need to wash and iron it, but I couldn't wait to show my first ever big cross stitch project;

Love how it turned out, especially with the green embroidery thread (cotton thread on linen)

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Borghesani

Bar, 1969

walnut tree, bronze

Vladey

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Fields under Snow - Paul Evans , 2024-25

British , b. 1954 -

Ink and acrylic, 61 x 57 cm.

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Someone living in Sweden during the Iron Age wore this cloak. Unfortunately, they wore it while they were murdered: forensic analysis found the holes in the cloak match how stabs would have penetrated the folds of the cloak when it was being worn.

Dating to 360 to 100 BCE, is also the oldest known example of a houndstooth pattern!

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Sacred Time

"...sacred time doesn't care for clocks and no sacred day willingly allows itself to be caged by the limits of twenty four short hours; instead these times are a tide, rising in the land and her people and ebbing and flowing with the rising of the sun and the shining of the moon. And so it is with our winter festivals; of Solstice, of Yule, of Jul, of Christmas, and so many others. To reclaim kairos (sacred time) from kronos (secular time) is a gentle act of resistance that we all might embrace..."

– Jacqueline Durban, 'To Spin a Saint'

see also: #midwinter, #quote, #radical honey

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saints

Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480

BnF, Latin 920, fol. 180r

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Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) - Śmierć (Death), 1902

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Photography by Xuebing Du

Instagram: xuebing.du

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🎨 Heinrich “Heinz“ Flockenhaus (Alemania, 1856-1919)