#isaac caruso

[goldoradove]

“the wolves” pt. 1

[rillabrooke]

edgy/misc OC ask meme last but certainly not least, my precious child isaac for @quietwaters

7. What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Isaac actually has an interesting history because 1) I hardly made contact with him during Version 1.0 though @bluebellwren worked with his character for some time; and 2) he was completely absent from Version 2.0, other than maybe a cameo appearance. As a result, this version of Isaac is entirely new (at least to me). Of all the Salamangka cast, he arrived in my head full formed, and he's lived free-rent there ever since.

24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

There's the whole kidnapped as a child resulting in complete loss of autonomy situation, so there hasn't been much choice in Isaac's life. I think years ago, he could've become heartless and callous and cruel—sadistic, even—but instead he maintained his humanity. I think that was choice. So to answer the question, he could've ended up like Samael. Yet, despite the cards stacked against him, he didn't.

25. What is your favorite thing about your OC?

Oh, I don't know, just everything. I love a good redemption story about the power of (non-romantic) transformative love. Choosing to be kind and compassionate and tender even when he has every reason not to. Even when he doesn't know how to. Maybe it's the salt-&-light writer in me talking, but he's my favorite blorbo archetype.

[rainbow-pop-arts]

At art cram school I had to draw faces realisticallly and I was like “Holy crap, this is fun”, so I drew these for fun

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in November 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 🧡 Snowed in With You - Reba Bale 💛 Fire Spells Between Friends - Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan 💚 Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac - K.A. Merikan 💙 Escape to the Sea - Alex Callan & Angelica Babineaux 💜 She's Always Hungry - Eliza Clark 💛 Phoenix Rising - Emily Hayes 💙 A Flower's Fatal Thorn - Jordan Dugdale 💜 A Sharper, More Lasting Pain - Alex Harvey-Rivas

❤️ The Librarian's Gargoyle - Evelyn Shine 🧡 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri 💛 Of Hoarfrost and Blood - Scarlet Tempest 💚 Judgement - Lucas Delrose 💙 Deadline for Love - Candi Tab 💜 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane ❤️ All the Truth I Can Stand - Mason Stokes 🧡 Celia - Addison James 💛 A Diamond Bright and Broken - Holly Davis 💙 Hexed - Emily McIntire 💜 Hometown Christmas - Laura Conway 🌈 This Christmas - Georgia Beers

❤️ Suite Heart - Jade Winters 🧡 We All Fall - Arden Coutts 💛 Taiwan Travelogue - Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 💚 Pit Stop - L.M. Bennett 💙 The Damaged Hearts Bargain - Sienna Waters 💜 War of Night - Greyson Black & E. Scott Clevenger 🧡 I'll be Boned for Christmas - Katherine McIntyre 💜 All You Want for the Holidays - Quinton Li 🌈 Queer as Folklore - Sacha Coward

❤️ Time and Tide - J.M. Frey 🧡 Ghost of the Heart - Catherine Friend 💛 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland - Jason June 💚 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 💙 Currency in Flesh - Heather Nix 💜 I Really Do - Emily K. Hardy ❤️ Something Close to God - Erika del Carmen Ruiz 🧡 The Crack at the Heart of Everything - Fiona Fenn 💛 Undeniable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💙 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 💜 Always on My Mind - Kelsey Painter 🌈 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

❤️ Don't Break Character - Jules Landry 🧡 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💛 Remnants of Filth: Yuwu - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Sugar, Spice, and Christmas Nice - Anne Hagan 💙 The Wishing Tree - Barbara Winkes 💜 Love on Moonlight Lake - Adriana Sargent ❤️ Mistletoe Motel - Lise Gold 🧡 The Royal They - KJ Sinclair 💛 My So-Called Family - Gia Gordon 💙 Frosted by the Girl Next Door - Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger 💜 The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani 🌈 A Hard Fit - Jennifer Moffatt

❤️ The Sacred Heart Motel - Grace Kwan 🧡 Leap - Simina Popescu 💛 I Dare You - Regena Mercy 💚 Love Lessons - Mary Ellen Capek 💙 Afterglow - Emily Antoinette 💜 In the Back Row With You - Natasha West ❤️ Make Room for Love - Darcy Liao 🧡 Here Goes Nothing - Emma K. Ohland Just for the Holidays - Micah Carver

❤️ Cookies, Candles, and Cute Butts for Christmas - Cameron D. James & Cali Kitsu 🧡 Objects in Mirror - N.W. Downs 💛 Sleigh Bells Ring - Alyson Root 💚 Real Tree / Fake Boyfriend - Ree Thomas 💙 Out of the Storm - Logan Sage Adams 💜 Hungry Heart - Jem Milton ❤️ A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 🧡 Beneath Her Power - Margaux Fox 💛 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 🌈 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri

❤️ Naughty November - Anthology 🧡 Hearts and Stars - Phoenix Kathryn 💛 Guarding Her Gangster Queen - Persephone Black 💚 The Shadow Spinner - Eric Kao 💙 Black, Queer, and Untold - Jon Key 💜 Hall of Shadows - Mariah Stillbrook ❤️ The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso 🧡 A Crimson Covenant - Aimee Donnellan 💛 Isaac - Curtis Garner 💙 Vineyard Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💜 Kiss of Death - Bryony Rosehurst 🌈 The Many Mistakes of Amy Love - RA Hunter

❤️ Accidentally in Love - Kimberly Cooper Griffin 🧡 Unwrapped - D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Hot Honey Love - Nan Campbell 💚 Havoc for the Holidays - Jay Leigh 💙 London - Patricia Evans 💜 Fatal Foul Play - David S. Pederson ❤️ The Gift of Us - Abigail Taylor 🧡 Upon the Midnight Queer - 'Nathan Burgoine 💛 The Christmas Pic - Rena Sapon-White & Ella Schaefer 💙 Seducing Scylla - Lex Logan 💜 Fated Winds and Promising Seas - Rose Black 🌈 A Surprise For The Holidays - Anna Sparrows

❤️ Immortal Hunger - KL Bone 🧡 Love and Loyalty - Emily Hayes 💛 A Kingdom of Lies - Ben Alderson 💚 Christmas Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💙 Wrecked for the Holidays - Kerry Kilpatrick ❤️ Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 🧡 Phoenix Found - T.J. Nichols 💛 Room for Two - Rochelle Wolf 💙 The Long Winter of Miðgarðr - Edale Lan 💜 A Handyman for the Holidays - Valerie Gomez 🌈 Sundown in San Ojuela - M.M. Olivas

[lcstinfantasy]

i don't think i ever made a post about my muses sexualities....so here is a list lol

canon muses:

hayley james - straight

lydia martin - straight

lucas scott - straight

brooke davis - bi-curious

stu matcher - pansexual

tatum riley -straight

Eli Hale - bisexual

john b routledge- pansexual

sarah cameron - pansexual

rafe cameron - pansexual

steve harrington - bisexual

eddie munson - pansexual

nancy wheeler - bisexual

chrissy cunningham - bisexual, more women leaning

robin buckley -lesbein

joyce byers - straight

Carol Perkins - straight

jonathan byers - bisexual

tara carpenter - straight

sara carpenter - straight

ethan landry - bisexual

quinn bailey - straight

dom torretto - straight

jokob torretto - bisexual

taylor jewel - straight

billy loomis - bisexual

campbell eliot - bisexual

sam eliot - homosexual

allie pressman - straight

abel teller - straight

thomas teller - pansexual

isaac lahey - bisexual

erica reyes - straight

OC CHARACTERS

sage thomspon - straight

juniper thomspon - bisexual

hope whittemore - straight

noah armstrong - bisexual

eric armstrong - pansexual

bree armstrong - straight

katherine bell - straight

elijah moran - pansexual

ethan moran - bisexual

naya gomez - straight

matthew evans - bisexual

daniel james - bisexual

kendall floyd - bisexual

joseph taylor - straight

kira huges -straight

kai coleman  - bisexual

hanna pittman  - straight

miko young - pansexual

jasper wooley - pansexual

eden wolfe - pansexual

sterling herrman - bisexual

pete warner - bisexual

dixie adams - straight

lily danberry - straight

julia danberry - straight

nick danberry - pansexual

davina davidson - straight

hayley davidson - straight

madison lewis - straight

russel lewis - bisexual

talon lewis  - straight

tatum lewis - bisexual

dani sanchez -straight

maya sanchez - straight

celeste lovegood - straight

samuel johnson - bisexual

paisley johnson - demisexual

nate felix -pansexual

andy darnell - bisexual

astrid sullivan - straight

carter ramsey - bisexual

willow anderson - straight

ivy greene - straight

Nate Felix  - bisexual

Dakota Roth - bisexual

wesley henson -  - bisexual

roxanne roca - straight

jolene devin cooper - straight

colby ireland roberts - straight

myles james boyce - straight

kyro javier gomez - pansexual

Dalton Winter Richmann - bisexual

Shepard Knight Richmann - bisexual

vincenza "vince" lucciano - pansexual

wren nicole caruso - bisexual

james oliver alexander - bisexual

elinor brooke henderson - pansexual

rowan grey - bisexual

alfie reynolds - bisexual

reign grey - straight

dillon combs - straight

test muses/by request:

faye rainee munson -straight

asher poe munson - bisexual

milo michael larson - bisexual

fallon marie larson - straight

declan felix larson - bisexual

adeline blair cameron - straight

davina claire - straight

[emo-emu64]

Requests

Characters-

Marvel

Loki Laufeyson

Thor Odinson

Bucky Barnes

Peter Parker

Adam Warlock

Peter Quill

Star Wars

Din Djarin

Han Solo

Luke Skywalker

The Hunger Games

Finnick Odair

Peeta Mellark

Haymitch Abernathy

Call of Duty

Simon 'Ghost' Riley

König

Keegan P. Russ

John 'Soap' MacTavish

Captain John Price

Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick

The walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

Rick Grimes

Glenn Rhee

(Not finished with the show yet, but still know pretty much all spoilers, bare with me please)

Supernatural

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

Castiel

Gabriel

Destiel

Miscellaneous

Isaac 'Zack' Foster (Angels of Death)

Mammon ( Obey Me!)

Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)

Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)

Prince Corrick (Defy The Night)

Leo Caruso (A Way Out)

Ideas/Suggestions

Dialogue Prompts-

Sass(?)

"I hate You." "Really? Why? I think I'm a delight."

"Is that blood?" "No?" "That question should not be answered with another question."

"You smile like an idiot when you look at them. It's vomit-inducing, honestly."

"Ow!" "Seriously, we've been through this how many times, and you're still a baby about it." "It still hurts..." "Well, I don't know what to tell you, maybe get stabbed less, I guess."

"Relax, 'tis but a flesh wound" "Last time you said that you had been stabbed."

Fluff

"Jesus, your feet are cold!"

"Can i braid your hair?"

"This reminded me of you."

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile."

"Hold still, this will sting a little."

Scenarios-

Fluff

Laying together in a hammock

Late night snack runs

Grocery shopping

cooking/baking together

Morning routine

Dancing barefoot in the kitchen to their favorite songs

Making cinnamon rolls together in the morning

AUs

Demon/monster

Pirate

Medieval

The second half is more a reference for myself, but all are welcome to it. I do not write NSFW fics. All my works are x reader, except for Destiel because its really the only pairing I have any experience with.

[shrimpella21]

Side Muse List

A quick note - I am happy to play someone else molded to fit your preferences/story. I'm flexible!

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐄𝐘𝐄

DOMINICK CARUSO

UNFINISHED. Peter Scanavino.

Dom. 40. He/him.

Tampa. Single (divorced). Private investigator.

Bisexual & Biromantic.

Has a little girl named Rosie, who's the light of his life. Favorite meal is pasta. Favorite movie is Glass Onion. Roxy is his wifey, but they divorced and Dom is losing the rights to his kid. He's pretty down on his luck. Roxy is a cold-hearted bitch and he's terrified she'll hurt his child.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍-𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑

Cosmo Shelley

UNFINISHED. Oscar Isaac

No Nickname. 40. He/Him.

New Orleans. Single. Loan Shark.

Bisexual and Biromantic.

Best rated loan shark in the city! He's got a great yelp page. I'm kidding actually, he's a pretty horrible person. Will eat you in more than one way. Takes any sort of job as long as he gets to kill people.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐈𝐆

Edgar Perez

UNFINISHED. Pedro Pascal

Eddie. 45. He/Him.

Indiana. Single. Park Ranger.

Bisexual and Biromantic.

Edgar is a local community activist on the days he's not beating people up. He likes to think he's extremely morally righteous. If he sees someone littering he'll do his best to terrorize them and make their park experience the most miserable time of their life. It can be altered based on who you'd like to partner him with, but Edgar is usually a werebeast! He takes the form of a boar. No, it is not controlled by the moon cycle.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑

Lucinda (Lucy) Marigold

UNFINISHED. Florence Pugh

Lucy. 28. She/Her.

Boston. Single. Nurse.

Bisexual and Biromantic.

Kindhearted enough to be the (not-so) crazy cat lady. Usually low on money. Is incredibly smart and good at what she does. Runs an illegal clinic out of her own home on weekends and makes far more money than she does at the hospital.

[joker1315s-whump-sideblog]

I posted 443 times in 2022

3 posts created (1%)

440 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@joker1315s-whump-sideblog

@aceofwhump

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@joker1315

I tagged 415 of my posts in 2022

Only 6% of my posts had no tags

#queueing my favourites - 136 posts

#marvel - 50 posts

#my favourites - 46 posts

#oscar isaac - 43 posts

#moon knight - 40 posts

#stuff - 34 posts

#whump community - 28 posts

#once upon a time - 19 posts

#simon baker - 17 posts

#the mentalist - 17 posts

Longest Tag: 84 characters

#that's the difference between a proper program and a random gif site on the internet

My Top Posts in 2022:

#3

Whump Ask Game!!! 5 + 22!

Hello! Thank you very much for asking ^^

5. Whumper turned Whumpee or Whumpee turned Whumper?

Hm, I think Whumper turned Whumpee. I like to see powerful or arrogant characters being brought down and put in their place. Like what happened between Rumple and Hook. At the beginning he was quite an ass and it was fun to see him loose against Rumple. Also if the whumper did bad things it just feels good whumping them xD I like characters as whumpees who are used to be dominant and the ones everyone fears.

22. Most controversial whump opinion?

I prefer gifs and fanfics over OC-stories. For me whump is about shows or movies and especially actors who look nice while being whumped. Only texts don't do it for me, if I don't have a character I can picture.

That's about it. Thank's again for asking. You're one of my favourite whump blogs 🤗

More questions here

1 note - Posted August 2, 2022

#2

Whumpmasinjuly Day 2 - First Whumperflies

I actually can't remember. I think I've always enjoyed whump, that's why I can't remember a moment where I thought oh, I like that. One of the first whumpees was Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh. In one of the mangas he wore a collar, I liked that. Afterwards most of the actors I liked where because they were good whumpees. David Caruso in Kiss of Death, Tim Roth in Lie to Me, Simon Baker in The Mentalist to name a few. And now of course everyone in my pinned post 😅

I' m really curious to hear your stories.

1 note - Posted July 2, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Trapped

So this somehow happened. I hope you like it.

Warnings: Blood, restraints (let me know if there has to be more)

Word count: 475

Steven woke in a dimly lit room. Opposite of him he could make out a pedestal with a little figurine. Khonshu? Obviously the god had actually been turned to stone. Steven would’ve lied if he’d said he was sad about that.

Unfortunately he wasn’t in a much better position. He was on his knees. Again. And his hands were cuffed behind his back. ...Again. The dull aching in his wrists turned to searing pain when he tried to move his arms. Apparently the handcuffs had been chained to the wall behind him and someone had pulled on the restraints till his skin broke. This also explained the sticky feeling on his hands. It was dried blood.

“What happened?” His voice was hoarse, like he’d screamed for some time. On the polished wall next to him he could just barely see his reflection. Well, not exactly his reflection. Reflections didn’t talk.

“The gods deemed it wiser to not only bind Khonshu in stone, but also lock up his last avatar”, Marc answered matter-of-factly.

“But they can’t just leave us here, we’re going to starve.” Steven thought of the poor souls who used to be entombed alive with their dead masters. Was he to meet the same fate?

“We’d die of thirst first, but Khonshu’s still keeping us alive.”

“Oh, good.”

“But I fear we’ll still feel the hunger and thirst,” Marc went on mercilessly. That didn’t sound so good anymore. Somehow dying of thirst once sounded less unpleasant.

“What are we going to do now?”

“We wait. They’ll come for us. At the latest when Harrow frees Ammit. They’ll need us.” Suddenly, Steven felt as if he didn’t get enough air.

“What if they don’t come? What if we’re forgotten?” He was desperately gasping for air now. His breathing had turned ragged and shallow. Instinctively he tried to pull his arms in front of him, which made everything worse when the pain from his wrists made tears well up in his eyes.

“Steven you have to calm down, you’re hyperventilating.” He bloody knew he was hyperventilating! But what else was he going to do? He’d just learnt that he was facing an eternity chained to a wall in the Great Pyramid. Feeling the agony of starving or dying of thirst without being able to die!

“It’s ok... You’re gonna be ok. Just let me take over. You won’t have to feel anything.” The reflection looked and sounded determined. There was only a hint of fear. Surprised Steven stared at Marc. He hadn’t said anything. Either Marc was reading his mind now or he’d just had the same thoughts.

Steven nodded. He’d give up control, for now. But if this was their fate he wouldn’t be reduced to a bystander. And he prayed to whichever god was listening, that Marc was right and this was only temporary.

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[whatsnextmovies]

Flock of Four

April 13, 2018

[goldoradove]

[X]

[rillabrooke]

to continue what i just rambled in the tags of some poor person's post - i think food as isaac's love language is even more important because he was raised with an unreliable food source. i wrote a whole scene into salamangka about how the way he views food is unhealthy, so imagine if his view changes so much that he shows his love through food.

i mean, salamangka is literally a restaurant. this found family he develops all works in and around food. the first thing they do when he finds himself in salamangka's basement is feed him.

[athanza]

My full list of celeb husbandos (in no particular order):

1. Keanu Reeves

2. David Bowie

3. Aiden Turner

4. Michael Shanks

5. Kim Taehyung

6. David Caruso

7. Rudy Youngblood

8. Adam Lambert

9. Michael Rooker

10. Henry Cavill

11. James McAvoy

12. Benedict Cumberbatch

13. Nicolaj Coster-Waldau

14. Lee Pace

15. Richard Armatidge

16. Jason Isaacs

17. Cody Fern

18. Pedro Pascal

19. Alexander Vlahos

20. Bradley Cooper

21. Chris Pine

22. Cillian Murphy

23. Mads Mikkelsen

24. Benicio Del Toro

25. Ivan Ozhogin

26. Matt Czuchry

27. Sebastian Stan

28. Antonio Banderas

29. Jai Courtney

30. Dan Stevens

31. Dev Patel

32. Hozier

33. Alan Rickman

34. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

35. Jensen Ackles

36. Misha Collins

37. Luke Evans

38. Matt Damon

39. Viggo Mortensen

40. Sean Bean

41. Patrick Wilson

42. Riccardo Scamarcio

43. Ewan McGregor

44. Michael Legge

45. Gaspard Ulliel

46. Taka (One Ok Rock)

47. David Tennant

48. Brendan Fraser

49. Ardeth Bay

50. Min Yoongi

51. Josh Brolin

52. Miyavi

53. Daniel Henney

54. Jake Gyllenhall

55. Hiroyuki Sanada

56. Alessandro Juliani

57. Tom Hardy

58. Bryan Dechart

59. Ewan Mitchell

60. Oscar Isaac

61. Ethan Hawke

It's growing and evolving all the time. Let's see if we can make it to 100 lmao

[mcmcntomorii-later]

🎰 If you're up for it since I know I have a lot of muses (include baby girl Kana too) because this is always fun to see what crazy matches come out

  — Oh I’m so up for it lmao I’ll probably do lists by muse groups you have on your page that have more than five names listed lol instead of compiling one big list so here we go:

tl;dr -  I’m 1000000% down with all of these lmao and I’m down for discussing whatever kind of ship owo

The Vampires:

KYOKO MINORI

ELLIOT LEDGER

SEIJI KURANAGI

AIDEN LEDGER

VICTORIA LEDGER

   — oOOHHH honestly??? I’m down for any one of these ovo I would love more interactions between Mukuro and vampires!!! Either in her vampire verse or out of it

Lycanthropes:

ETIENNE BORDELEAU

DANTE ÁLVAREZ (TBA)

AIAS

LOTHAR ZURCHER

ALARIC ZURCHER

  — ooh again, honestly down for all and any of these ones ovo I don’t think I’ve interacted with any lycanthrope muses!! And I know Mukuro would very much be interested in Aias b/c of the white hair lol

Japanese Myths:

AMAYA

KAZAN

ISAO

INEI

YUKIKO

  — oooo another one where I’m down for any and all lmao with either Mukuro’s normal/human verses or even her dragon one as well!!! owo

Humans:

GENEVIEVE KENNEDY

BRIELLE SULLIVAN

NOVALEE ANDERSON

MICAH MARSHALL

ALAYNA EMERSON

The Chateau:

TALULLA

DREXEL

MEZRELLIE

MAIA

KIYOMI

The Traundrathe Pantheon:

ZELINE

CICERO

SILAS

KEANNE

MARIN

Greek Myths:

HADES

ARES

CHIONE

NIALL

HERMES

Celtic Myths:

AINMIRE Ó CEALLAIGH

THALLAN BREATHNACH

MAVIS MAC CATHÁIN

SIVELLE Ó CEALLAIGH

FINN

Atlantians:

LEIGH DENNISON

ISAAC WINCHESTER

COLLETTE LIVINGSTON

BENEDICT MELLODRONGEA

ALDEN ATKINSON

Elementum:

STERLING CHRISTOU

ICARUS MCKNIGHT

AEROS VERMILLION

DEXTER CARUSO

LAGUNA DEVEREAUX

The Underground and Covens:

ESTHER YOUNG

NARCISSA BLIXT

PETRA OZBOURNE

MOTHER / MADRIA

ORION GRIMM

Town of Liandros:

MARLEIGH

MAGNÚS AÐALGEIRSON

MIKKEL EYRÍKURSON

ANEIRA LAVEAU

CHARLIZE

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"Living" by Isaac Caruso

[architectnews]

Sigurd Lewerentz Exhibition: Arkdes Stockholm

Sigurd Lewerentz Exhibition ArkDes Stockholm, Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Building Center

Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect Of Death And Life – Arkdes

3 Nov 2020

Sweden’s Most Revered Architect Subject Of Major Exhibition Opening in Stockholm In April 2021

Location: ArkDes Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, Sweden

• Designed By Caruso St John

• Accompanying Monograph Published Spring 2021

Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect Of Death And Life

3 November 2020 – Sweden’s most revered architect Sigurd Lewerentz, regarded as a giant of 20th century architecture, is the subject of a major exhibition, Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life designed by Caruso St John, opening at ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design in Stockholm, in April 2021.

This will be a significant moment of assessment, the first major monograph exhibition of the work of Lewerentz since the 1980s coinciding with the publication of the first comprehensive biography.

Lewerentz, who was born in Bjärtrå in northern Sweden in 1885 and died in Lund 1975, is an enigmatic figure in the modern history of architecture. He rarely spoke publicly or published, but his influence is acknowledged by a generation of the world’s leading architects.

Colin St. John Wilson, paraphrasing E.M. Forster’s impression of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, said it was “as if he stood at a slight angle to the world.”

In the words of Adam Caruso, designer of the exhibition: “Lewerentz’s late projects represent an unprecedented integration of making and thought. Like Matisse, who advised young painters to cut off their tongues and communicate with brush, paint and canvas, Lewerentz was famously laconic. He did not teach and few of his own project descriptions survive. He built.”

The exhibition and the book are the result of four years of research. The majority of the objects in the exhibition are drawn from ArkDes’ own formidable collection, which will be shown alongside hitherto unknown or never previously exhibited objects that have been discovered in travels by the research team across the country.

The exhibition will cover the full range of Lewerentz’s works. Among these are three iconic projects: The Woodland Cemetery in south Stockholm, designed with Gunnar Asplund (1935-40), where many notable Swedish writers, musicians and actors are buried, including Greta Garbo, and his two late masterpieces, St Mark’s Church, in Bjorkhagen, dedicated in 1960; and St Peter’s Church, in Klippan, a town 60 kilometres north of Malmo, completed in 1966.The show will include a range of drawings of these famous buildings but also objects that show how Lewerentz’s collaborations with artists and theologians made buildings that were deeply literate and inventive about Lutheran traditions.

The exhibition will feature a newly commissioned work by the American artist Amie Siegel in the space called Boxen. Known for her layered, meticulously constructed works that trace and perform the undercurrents of systems of value, design and cultural ownership, Siegel works variously with film, video, photography, performance, sound and installation.

ArkDes will produce a landmark new book in connection with the exhibition, which will be the first ever published with full access to Lewerentz’s archive. Designed by award-winning graphic designer Malmsten Hellberg, it will contain 700 pages of drawings, photographs and models, plus excerpts from Lewerentz’s personal archive and library.

In August 2021, a Lewerentz Festival will be arranged in collaboration with partners throughout Sweden, to pay tribute to one of architectural history’s most revered, and most mythologised architects.

Kieran Long, Director of ArkDes and curator of the exhibition, said: “There is no Swedish architect with more influence on contemporary architecture today, or with more passionate advocates across the globe, than Sigurd Lewerentz. Devotees travel from everywhere in the world to see his buildings. There are very few architects in history with Lewerentz’s ability to make buildings that truly ask the biggest questions about what it means to be a modern person. His work powerfully evokes our deepest and most archaic cultural memories. But he was also fascinated by cosmetic and fleeting pleasures: Shopping, dancing, drinking and having dinner. The life of the city fascinated him and his work made a stage for our playful selves as well as our spiritual ones.”

Background

Sigurd Lewerentz Sigurd Lewerentz was born at Sandö in the parish of Bjärtrå in Västernorrland County, Sweden. He was the son of Gustaf Adolf Lewerentz and Hedvig Mathilda Holmgren. He initially trained as a mechanical engineer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (1905–8). Later he took up an architectural apprenticeship in Germany.

He first opened his own architectural office in Stockholm in 1911 and became associated with the architect Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940). Together they made a winning entry for the Stockholm South (Woodland) Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården) competition of 1914–15. This project was implemented initially by both architects, however, the latter stages were done by Asplund alone. He and Asplund were appointed as the main architects for the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930) but afterwards Lewerentz became disillusioned, Lewerentz turned away from architecture for many years, and from 1940 he ran a factory producing windows and other architectural fittings of his own design.

Sigurd Lewerentz, together with his colleagues Erik Lallerstedt and David Helldén, created between 1933 and 1944 what is regarded of one of the masterpieces of functionalist architecture, Malmö Opera and Music Theatre (Malmö Opera och Musikteater). The foyer is considered of particular beauty, with its open surfaces and beautiful marble staircases and it is adorned with a number of works of art by artists such as Carl Milles and Isaac Grünewald.

He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for architecture in 1950. In the last decade of his life he designed two churches, St. Mark’s at Björkhagen in Stockholm (1956) and St. Peter’s at Klippan in Scania (1963–66), that revived his career in architecture.

He continued to work at competition proposals and furniture designs until shortly before his death in Lund, Sweden during 1975.

ArkDes ArkDes, located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, is Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design. It is a museum, a study centre and an arena for debate and discussion about the future of architecture, design and citizenship. It is housed in a beautiful building by Rafael Moneo and more recently ArkDes´ new studio gallery, called Boxen, designed by Dehlin Brattgård Architects.

Kieran Long, Director ArkDes: photo courtesy ArkDes Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design

Kieran Long Kieran Long, the British curator, critic and broadcaster, was appointed Director of ArkDes in April 2017. He was the architecture critic of the London Evening Standard between 2014 and 2014. He subsequently established the department of design, architecture and digital at the V&A in London in 2013/14, of which he was Keeper between 2014 and 2017. His television work includes presenting “Restoration Home’ and ‘The House that £100k Built’ for the BBC.

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