#chicago gothic

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winter on the chicago river

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South Side by night

Chicago, 2022

[mylifeisaparty]

Lazy pics derp:3

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꧁★꧂

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Pictures of the Heart Chicago Motel in Chicago, really hoping to spend a night here eventually♡

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The University of Chicago in the summer 🍃🍃

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Ethel Cain: August Underground - Thalia Hall, Lollapalooza Aftershow, Chicago 2024

'she accepts her fate and faces the end'

August Underground - Ethel Cain, Thalia Hall, Lollapalooza Aftershow, Chicago, August 2, 2024 Video via X (@/gayforgogo)

"Ethel Cain wastes away in the attic of an abandoned shack in the woods of northern California. As Isaiah reveals his truest nature, she accepts her fate and faces the end." August Underground (Genius) Preacher’s Daughter, Track 10

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It only took three-hundred-and-fifteen days For rain to fall And tears to shed With only fifty days remaining did it wait The year is a fickle beast Oh, how I love thee Despise thee I am wilted in these dry summers These hale auburn autumns Ready to fling myself from my very limbs I turn my head to the heavens for the rain Much like a sunflower might to face the sun I face the clouds, and close my eyes Breathing slow, meditative, almost in prayer Begging–no, yearning–for the charge in me Above, below, around me To connect Let me hear that clap and see that flash Thunderous applause of existence Blind me with your beauty Oh, how I will weep Like the mighty willow of which I blossomed Let me roll down these hills, like thunder Over the tumbling clouds Three-hundred-and-fifteen days too late Petrichoricly drown me in this So that I might spring joy As the grass And the trees Spring But now is coming the passing of autumn Wintered and warm beneath sheets Listening to the rainfall strike Against my window do I press my head As I did for all those school-years Longing to live in the places passed by How better to know my place in the world Amidst a storm that will leave me Like ashed kindling upon the asphalt To remind – how powerful the world is

NaNoWriMo Vol. 4, 11.11.24 “11:11, Make a Wish”

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Braving the late night blizzard in downtown Chicago

Taken January 2024

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American Gothic (1930) 🎨 Grant Wood 🏛️ The Art Institute of Chicago 📍 Chicago, United States

This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood. The impetus for the painting came while Wood was visiting the small town of Eldon in his native Iowa. There he spotted a little wood farmhouse, with a single oversized window, made in a style called Carpenter Gothic. “I imagined American Gothic people with their faces stretched out long to go with this American Gothic house,” he said. He used his sister and his dentist as models for a farmer and his daughter, dressing them as if they were “tintypes from my old family album.”

The highly detailed, polished style and the rigid frontality of the two figures were inspired by Flemish Renaissance art, which Wood studied during his travels to Europe between 1920 and 1926. After returning to settle in Iowa, he became increasingly appreciative of midwestern traditions and culture, which he celebrated in works such as this. American Gothic, often understood as a satirical comment on the midwestern character, quickly became one of America’s most famous paintings and is now firmly entrenched in the nation’s popular culture. Yet Wood intended it to be a positive statement about rural American values, an image of reassurance at a time of great dislocation and disillusionment. The man and woman, in their solid and well-crafted world, with all their strengths and weaknesses, represent survivors.

[mylifeisaparty]

Lemme eat you:3

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i moved to the midwest.

this was a Dracula night at Empty Bottle for halloween.

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Gloomy Days in Chicago

Pictures are of the Lyric Opera House and the view of the Chicago skyline from the Shedd Aquarium