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Domenico Fetti (c. 1589-1623) "Magdalene in Meditation" (1618) Oil on canvas Baroque
#paintings#art#artwork#religious painting#melancholy#domenico fetti#oil on canvas#fine art#baroque#italian artist#female portrait#portrait of a woman#side profile#melanchonic#dogs#animals#christianity#somber#despair#pain#gloomy#mourning#pensive#reflective#1610s#early 1600s#early 17th century
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Traugott Hermann Rüdisühli - Burnt Offering At The Cypress Grove, 1900.
#Traugott Hermann Rüdisühli#Burnt Offering At The Cypress Grove#on your knees#crying#mourning#sadness#melancholy#alone#alone in the woods#vestal
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The Mourning Veil
#https://shadowedaiartistry.tumblr.com/#ShadowedAIArtistry#The Mourning Veil#haunting#ghostly image#melancholy
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Chap 12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (part 3, final)
Queer Ecologies
‘what it might mean to inhabit the natural world having been transformed by the experience of its loss’?
‘[the queer artist's] natures are not saved wildernesses; they are wrecks, barrens, cutovers, nuclear power plants: unlikely refuges and impossible gardens. But they are also sites for extraordinary reflection on life, beauty, and community’ (344)
AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts
The artist (Jan Zita Grover’s North Enough) writes about moving from San Francisco, where she has worked as a personal caregiver to many individuals who were dying, and died of, AIDS, eventually to the woods of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota hoping for ‘a geographic cure’ to her burnout and grief. (344)
‘in their persistence [grief, mourning], generate a form of imagination—an awareness of the persistence of loss—that allows her to conceive of the natural world around her in ways that challenge the logic of commodity substitution characterizing contemporary relations of nature consumption” (344)
“The north woods did not provide me with a geographic cure. But they did something much finer. Instead of ready-made solutions, they offered me an unanticipated challenge, a spiritual discipline: to appreciate them, I needed to learn how to see their scars, defacement, and artificiality and then beyond those to their strengths—their historicity, the difficult beauties that underlay their deformity. AIDS, I believe, prepared me to perform these imaginative feats. In learning to know and love the north woods, not as they are fancied but as they are, I discovered the lessons that AIDS had taught me and became grateful for them” (344)
Rather than the landscape of her dreams, the land looks more like a candidate for reclamation. Through Grover’s research we learn that the region is one that been ‘systematically abused: logged several times, drained, subjected to failed attempts at agriculture, depleted, abandoned, eroded, invaded, neglected.”
Jack pines are predominant in the region; tenacious, ‘the first conifers to reestablish themselves after a fire” (16), in their own way remarkable even as they are useless for lumber, short lived, and not at all the sorts of trees about which adjectives like ‘breathtaking’ circulate” (345) they are a loud testament to the violence that has generated them.
“the diminishment of this landscape mortified and disciplined me. Its scars will outlast me, bearing witness for decades beyond my death to the damage done here” (20) But still: the love emerges, painfully, gradually, intimately. (345)
She experiences the landscape in terms of loss and change, rather than idyll and replacement. It is all personal; it is all about developing a way of making meaning that recognizes the singularities of the past and takes responsibility for the future in the midst of intimate devastation. (345)
‘Environmental hubris’—fly fishing, the introduction of non-native fish to the river, changing temperatures of rivers caused by logging and diversion; specific policies, politics, and technologies that have had effects on the rivers, the fish, and the other species throughout the river and the north woods (356)
A refusal to demonize the ‘invasive’ species; Grover herself is ‘invasive’ both culturally and personally (white settlers and big city imports) thus her ethical claim is not for purity but for an active and thoughtful remembering of historical violences in the midst of ongoing necessity of movement and change (346)
Seek relationships with Clear-cuts and landfills in order to bring to the foreground the massive weight of human devastation of the natural world; “a discerning eye can see how unstewarded most of this land has been. The charm lies in finding ways to love with such loss and pull from it what beauties remain” (81) (347)
“she does not romanticize the dying even as she might mourn their loss to the world; instead [through Grover] we witness each loss as particular, irrevocable, and concrete: she is their witness” (347)
Can we learn to see these landscapes as creation as well as destruction?
Rather than mourn the loss of the pristine, she carefully cultivates an attitude of appreciation of what lies before her, beyond the aesthetic wilderness to the intricate details of human interactions with the species and landscapes of the region. In this manner she comes to be able to find the beauty in, for example, landfills and clearcuts; far from naivete or technophilia, this ability is grounded in a commitment to recognizing the simultaneity of death and life in these landscapes, the glut of aspen-loving birds in the clear-cut, the swallows, turkey vultures, and bald eagles near the landfill.
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It is necessary to face our fear and pain; we have to make room in our relationships with the natural world, queer and otherwise, for the recognition that that is what we might be feeling in the first place (355)
#queer ecologies: sex nature politics desire#queer ecology#queer theory#ecofeminism#critical ecology#environmental politics#ecology#aids crisis#mourning nature#ecogrief#colonialism#environmental degradation#melancholia#queer politics#melancholy#environmentalism#climate and environment#environmental justice#forests
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The Paling Crest by Mournful Congregation From The Exuviae of Gods - Part II (2023) Doom metal - from Australia
Artwork by Karmazid
#instrumental#acoustic#guitars#mournful congregation#funeral doom metal#doom metal#beautiful#melancholic#strings#melancholy#atmospheric#music#<3
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𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖊 -`. 𝔟𝔤𝔦𝔦𝔦. 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫.
MOON HALF ELF. FIGHTER. ELDRITCH KNIGHT. WIZARD. NECROMANCER. NOBLE. ❦ 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱.
#oc: amavet aerasume#leg.ocs#*myedits#*ocedit#leg.edit#bg3 oc#baldurs gate 3 oc#ch: tav#tav oc#putting him in my pocket and cherishing him coveting him like a dragons treasure mound etc etc#r*haegar core he was always mournful and melancholic 🥀🥹 an air of tragedy surrounded him my poor BOY#his brother rules in his stead in ye olde canon while he’s absent <3#this has been sitting in my drafts for EONS but i am so in love with these *screams*#mourning lord bc of his tragic past OF WHICH I WILL GET INTO 🥀🤧✨#in short his air of melancholy the tragic loss of his dearest his betrothed and other things :’) !!#yana had nothing to do with anything she’s tootally not in his lore either :)#alsoo thinking what if the tragedy was a plot made by s*har?? maybe?#like it would be a PERFECT tie in to sh*adowhearts arc yk????#i did a thought thing in the wee hours of the night but yea!! it would be inch resting i think !!!!!#something something red string *screams*#i love symbolism !!!!!!!#leg? posting at a reasonable hour ?? it’s more likely than you think !!!!!! 🥀🥴✨💀 <3#do not ask him about what happened to his youngest brother he didnt perform a necromantic ritual not realizing his brother was still alive#and mistook thinking he was dead and panicked as it was recently after he lost his beloved so his brother was made reborn bc of it :')#DO NOOT ASK HIM ABOUT IT (i do not have a name for his brother yet but he was the 12th sibling so the youngest of the tall ones!!)
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emmrich’s personal choice quest holds a weight to it that i really feel like the others didn’t or tried and couldn’t
#datv spoilers#like not to compare it beegeethree but i liked how you could nudge the characters towards the Ledge or away from it in certain ways.#like their paths could take negative or positive paths based on the Love you gave them. anddddd i saw that w em. and harding a bit#but i was missing it from everyone else.#like there was a choice yes but…. idk… we got to see the consequences w emmrich.#you can let him avoid his devastating fear or face it head on. and you can Feel the consequences of that thru manfred. how joyous emmrich i#when we revive manfred vs. how melancholy he is when he becomes a lich.#even more so in his romance. when he grapples with the idea that he WILL lose rook and he WILL mourn them. FOREVER.#you can help him embrace that fear. and he’s all the better for it.#not telling anyone what to pick tho. Just that there are consequences.#im not trying to incur ascended astarion discourse.#i just like that there are consequences and u can help him past a burden.#like with harding letting her embrace her anger instead of telling her to push it aside… and she blossoms for it!
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Mourning
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#mine#melancholy#photography#analog#cemetery#headstone#monument#statue#mourning#macabre#death#moody art
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imagine ur girl dumps you in 1955 and chet baker drops this
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Fantasy is what allows us to imagine ourselves and others otherwise; it establishes the possible in excess of the real
The critical promise of fantasy, when and where it exists, is to challenge the contingent limits of what will and will not be called reality. Fantasy is what allows us to imagine ourselves and others otherwise; it establishes the possible in excess of the real; it points elsewhere, and when it is embodied, it brings the elsewhere home.
Judith Butler - Undoing Gender. Routledge; (16 Sept. 2004)
#lacan#psychoanalysis#unconscious#jouissance#lacanian real#freud#lacan unconscious#lacan object petit a desire#real symbolic imaginary#objet petit a#judith butler#fantasy#real#symptom#anxious#anxiety#angst#mourning#melancholia#melancholy#depression#depressed#panic#dread
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why is it that tossing broccoli with olive oil, salt, and pepper and popping it into the air fryer turns it into the most crackaliciously delicious roasted vegetable of all time, that I can munch an entire plate of like it's so much popcorn and still want more
but attempting the same thing with carrots just gets you. blegh.
#I don't understand how one of my other favorite fresh veggies can betray me this way#is it the texture?? the horrible soft texture that is the antithesis of the beautiful crisp CRUNCH that is the carrot's natural blessing??#no#well I mean yes obviously that's part of it#but roasting a carrot also just inexplicably makes it taste gross#Cam posts#woe#sadness#mournful melancholy
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Lionello Balestrieri (1872-1958).
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The morning breaks, The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore
#ffxiv#albi re'oh#danann#xivfuneral#for an art bash on twt! theme of “memento mori”#i wanted to play with albi's relationship with death as a death worker but it ended up about mourning her home isle and it's iconography#ten layers of lore and melancholie please enjoy
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Chap 12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (part 2)
Mourning and Melancholia
(1915 essay by the same name by Sigmund Freud); mourning and melancholia are reactions to the loss of a beloved object: “both are grave departures from the normal attitude of life” (1984, 252) but with mourning “we rely on its being overcome after a certain lapse of time” (225) in melancholia the ego will not let go, the melancholic internalizes the lost object as a way of preserving it. (334) A loss has occurred, “but one cannot see clearly what it is that has been lost, and it is all the more reasonable to suppose that the patient cannot consciously perceive what he has lost either” (254)(335)
Mourning is thus a process of recognition of beauty as well as an acknowledgement of its extinguishment (things are beautiful because they die) (336)
Melancholy Nature
Ecotourism, wilderness tourist practices are a form of ecosocial ritual by which consumers of ‘vanishing’ nature confirm their own transcendence of nature in the moment of mourning its loss: by understanding nature as something ‘lost’ at the hands of modernity, and by witnessing its demise in the fetishized chunks that are offered up to spectacular consumption by modernity, the victory of the modernity responsible for the loss is confirmed (337)
The temporal logic of this (bourgeois) progressivist narrative is very akin to Freud’s: the position of the present as ‘better’ than the past is achieved through an understanding of loss that assumes the libido will simply ‘move on’, and that also, in this case, assumes that modernity will simply move on from nature even as it memorializes its legacy in parks and monuments (337)
Fetishization and commodification of a lost, romanticized nature—“unspoiled” wilderness—is very important; it is the very quality of nature’s impending extinguishment (buy now or you’ll miss it) that fuels much ecotourism (337)
“Nature” becomes mythic, idyllic, a commodity, a fantasy, a fetish that can be bought to extend the reach of capital rather than critique the relationships that produced the loss in the first place. The idea of a pristine nature on the perpetual verge of destruction is not only a violent rationale for the dispossession of peoples and livelihoods but a seductive fantasy that keeps consumers poised to watch that destruction. (337)
Nature as a fantastic, watchable visitable commodity is a part of modernity (338); the consumption of nature as wilderness is an imposition of one hegemonic relationship—capitalist exchange—into a landscape of many other relationships and intimacies, relationships that are often destroyed in a process of consumption itself. crucially, the fantasy of wilderness is not only infinitely consumable, but infinitely replaceable.
There is lots of evidence of environmental loss but few places in which to experience it as loss, to even begin to consider that the diminishment of life that surrounds us on a daily basis is something to be really sad about, and on a personal level. Non-human beings and particular life filled places are, here, ungrievable in the same moment that their loss (or impending loss) propels their value on the market (338-339)
How does one grieve in a context in which the significance, the density, and even the existence of loss is unrecognized?
Melancholia, pressed into the service of memory—environmental loss becomes something recognizable and meaningful—and grievable
Queer Melancholia
Mourning is a process of accepting that by the loss one undergoes one will be changed, possibly forever (Butler 2004, 21) (340)
Melancholia is a productive response to the twentieth century’s “catastrophic losses of bodies, spaces, and ideals, [and that] psychic and material practices of loss and its remains are productive for history and for politics” (5) (340)
Melancholia suggests a non-normalizing relationship to the past and the world, in which the recognition of the identificatory persistence of loss in the present—loss as self, the fact that we are constituted by prohibition, power, and violence—is central to our ethical and political relationships with others.
Butler writes; grief furnishes a sense of political community…by bringing to the fore the relational ties that have implications for theorizing fundamental dependency and ethical responsibility (2004, 22) (341)
The author makes direct connections to queer activism especially surrounding the AIDS crisis and the catastrophic losses experienced.
“The numbers of deaths are unthinkable’ but ‘the rest of society offers little or no acknowledgment” ; is it not surprising that gay men feel “frustration, anger, rage, outrage, anxiety, fear, and terror, shame and guilt, sadness and despair” but rather that “we often don’t” (Douglas Crimp) Crimp believed that the failure of activism to acknowledge the fact that AIDS is bound up with internal violence as well as external is itself a form of disavowal; “by making all violence external, pushing it to the outside and objectifying it in ‘enemy’ institutions, and individuals, we deny its psychic articulation, deny that we are effected, as well as affected, by it”; Mourning is a vital companion to organizing and melancholia a part of the politics of AIDS. (341)
Cvetkovich; the collective preservation of loss is an ‘archive of trauma’—[…]suggests the acknowledgement of melancholia as a public activity; public melancholy as a form of survival (342)
What might it mean to consider the preservation of a public record of environmental loss, an “archive of ecological trauma”—made up of the kinds of art, literature, film, ritual, performance and other memorials and interrogations that have characterized so many cultural responses to AIDS—as part of an environmental ethics of politics?
What would it mean to consider seriously the environmental present, in explicit contrast to dominant discourses of ecological modernization, as a pile of environmental wreckage, constituted and haunted by multiple, personal, and deeply traumatic losses rather than as a position from which to celebrate their demise by consuming them (and moving on to something else)?
What might it look like to take seriously the fact that nature is currently ungrievable, and that the melancholy natures with which we are surrounded are a desperate attempt to hold onto something that we don’t even know how to talk about grieving? (342)
#queer ecologies: sex nature politics desire#queer ecology#queer theory#melancholia#melancholy#mourning#mourning for nature#ecogrief#aids crisis#queer politics#queer history#grieving#critical ecology#ecofeminism#environmental politics#ecology#loss#queer melancholia
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