listen there’s just something inherently sensual about catholicism and also death and bodily destruction, an erroticism that is inseparable from the discomfort and unease we feel when contemplating things like mortality and the relationship of divinity with the physical natural world, and the frisson between those two things, the attraction and the repellent feeling, is where the sublime lives
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Not to sound Romantic or anything, but I too have a striking fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque.
niiv:
The twisted ebb and flow of wood in this gnarl fascinated me. How strange it is that wood can look like roiling water and yet be completely stationary; how strange that even though I perceive it as stationary, it is actually still growing. Slowly flowing after all?
Forest adventures with a special person // August 31st
“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
— Georges Bataille. “Erotism: Death and Sensuality”. (via showroomofvisualart)
Be the god you want to worship
The air is rotting, metallic, cold, like a train station at one in the morning. Sweet season of hungry souls, ah.
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