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Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957), ‘The Hare & The Tortoise’, “The Fables of Aesop”, 1909 Source

#Edward Julius Detmold #lagomorphs #rodents

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The Borger Oak, 1919, M.C. Escher

#M.C. Escher #trees #prints #greyscale

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A 1972 spacectopus by Peter Goodfellow

#Peter Goodfellow #cephalopods #invertebrates #aa\quatic #haunted houses

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in search of times past, herbert bayer, 1959

#herbert bayer #forests #photography #eyes #trees #greyscale #birch trees

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The Metamorphosis Of Daphne 17th Century coral figure depicts Daphne transforming into a Laurel tree

#body horror #mythology #trees #sculptures

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full text / ID below the break

The Circus Animals’ Desertion

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

I

I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,

I sought it daily for six weeks or so.

Maybe at last being but a broken man

I must be satisfied with my heart, although

Winter and summer till old age began

My circus animals were all on show,

Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,

Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.

II

What can I but enumerate old themes,

First that sea-rider Oisin led by the nose

Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams,

Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose,

Themes of the embittered heart, or so it seems,

That might adorn old songs or courtly shows;

But what cared I that set him on to ride,

I, starved for the bosom of his fairy bride.

And then a counter-truth filled out its play,

`The Countess Cathleen' was the name I gave it,

She, pity-crazed, had given her soul away

But masterful Heaven had intervened to save it.

I thought my dear must her own soul destroy

So did fanaticism and hate enslave it,

And this brought forth a dream and soon enough

This dream itself had all my thought and love.

And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread

Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea;

Heart mysteries there, and yet when all is said

It was the dream itself enchanted me:

Character isolated by a deed

To engross the present and dominate memory.

Players and painted stage took all my love

And not those things that they were emblems of.

III

Those masterful images because complete

Grew in pure mind but out of what began?

A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,

Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,

Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut

Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone

I must lie down where all the ladders start

In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

"The Circus Animals' Desertion" WB Yeats

#WB Yeats #poetry #literature

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Flux 4. Dirk Staschke. 2016. Ceramic.

#Dirk Staschke #ceramics #macabre #gore

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legally obligated to take a pic of every Scutigera i see at work for @crevicedwelling

#invertebrates #myriapods #cnestus

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Teagan White (American, b. Chicago, IL based Saint Paul, MN, USA) - Screech, Paintings: Gouache, Watercolor, Colored Pencil on Paper

#Teagan White #fungi #mammals #chiroptera

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Julien Duvocelle (French, 1873-1961) - Skull with bulging eyes and hands clutching a wall

#Julien Duvocelle #macabre #eyes #endoskeletons #reapers

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#moarf13 #mammals #human/nature interfaces #Chiroptera

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Title: Spoonbill Artist: Murray Griffin Date: 1939 Medium: linocut on brown paper Size: 34.9 × 27.8 cm Source: National Gallery of Victoria

#Murray Griffin #birds #pelecaniformes #prints

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Eero Järnefelt, Rentukka ja Sammakko, 1880 - 1937.

#eero järnefelt #amphibians #anura

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“The Cup Of His Murders Is Flowing Over And In His Coat Shall Be Many Curses”, 12"x16", gouache and watercolor on paper. Come see these rabbit buddies and more paintings by me, Erica Williams, Cate Andrews, Alison George, and Jen Lobo, TONIGHT at Nucleus Portland, 5-8PM

#teagan white #lagomorphs #canids #carnivora #mammals #rodents #predation

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common swift

#Apodiformes #birds #mushbeast

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Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

#parasites #aquatic #invertebrates #despazito #digital art #long post #crustaceans #starfish

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Gyorgy Kepes Lichtenberg figures: A. R. von Hippel 1951

#A. R. von Hippel #greyscale