This December felt long and days passed as in a dream. From the first to the thirty-first, it feels like a whole novel, a little century of different feelings and sensations. This month I was living in the world of love and Chagall’s paintings and, despite the winter’s coldness, my path was covered with roses, and even the snow that fell felt more like powdered sugar than actual snow. Yellow roses were smiling to me, and the green-grey waters of the river murmured to me that spring is around the corner. I know they were lying to me but it brought me comfort indeed. The mist over the hills felt mysterious and inviting. Southern winds caressed my cheeks. Strange days. Every corner I turn is echoing with memories. Another spring will come soon. I really enjoyed many different fairy tale illustrations this month, mostly by Warwick Goble and Edmund Dulac, but also some others, in particular for the fairy tales The Princess and the Pea and The Frog Prince. Roses and frost, frilly dresses and red kisses, winter castles forgotten under layers of memories and frost, Degas’ pastels, Zinaida Serebriakova’s ballerinas and nudes, colourful houses in Gdansk, gorgeous Marine Vacth with a white parasol and adorable Brooke Shields with a white veil… an overall fairy tale mood.
“The years had gone by like a dream.”
(Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat)
“Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive…”
(The Smiths, There is a light that never goes out)
“You are everything to me. What wouldn’t I want to be for you. I’d like to follow you when you’re dead, look back to see you even if I might be turned into stone.”
(Ingeborg Bachmann, In the Storm of Roses from ‘The Poem for the Reader’, tr. Mark Anderson)
Sai Pallavi and Dhanush
Roseraie du jardin des plantes Paris 1909, autochrome frères Lumière , plaque de verre
九水巷 aka 999999999sx (Chinese) – Evening Pond, 2022, Paintings
九水巷 aka 999999999sx (Chinese) – Evening Pond, 2022, Paintings
Gdańsk, Poland by Martyna Damska
Picture found here.
Camille Rowe for Urban Outfitters Shoot – Fashion Gone Rogue
love letter from 1913 that opens up to form an art gallery (x)
Picture found here.
‘Rose’ by Beatrix Potter, 25 September 1896.
Picture found here.
Marine Vatch photographed by Cédric Klapisch for Madame Le Figaro (2011).
New Orleans, Louisiana // Valerie Esparza
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