Love mantis.
Chao Li-Chi performing. A still from Meditation on Violence (1948) a film by Maya Deren. Black and white, 16mm, 15mins. (via The Third Eye - Meditation on Violence)
When I love you,
I really fucking love you.
There are no in betweens.
I don’t know what grey is.
My love is black and white.
J.M. SARTORY
Active in Windischgrätz (Austria) circa 1720
Still Life with Skull, Reptiles, Insects and Plant
Source; www.hoogsteder.com
Circle of Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (circa 1630 - 1700) - A memento mori still life of a skull, a mirror, a globe, books, musical instruments and other objects on a draped table top
The Skull Cathedral of Otranto, Italy: Where the Bones of 800 Martyrs Adorn the Walls