Dorian, Manon & Abraxos - TOG 🩶 Artist: Andieburky

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words by @starpeace

franz kafka i love you

Risk

6/12/24

In the quiet depths of hesitation,

Lies the echo of spoken desire.

To leap into the unknown expanse,

Is to dance with the shadows of fear.

Risk, a silent companion,

Whispers of both joy and pain.

In the void of certainty's absence,

We’ll find the truth of our fate.

A journey embarked, uncharted,

Navigating the maze of possibility.

For in the gamble of the unknown,

Lies the canvas of our truest selves.

In this venture, you will never be alone

Hand in Hand, we’ll brave the void.

For in the leap, we find surety

With a shared breath of “if you jump, I jump.”

Eighth Heaven the Sphere of the Fixed Stars from Dante’s Divine Comedy, 1564

Joseph Granié (French,1866-1912)

The Kiss, 1900

Oil on canvas

From my trip to the US earlier this year :)

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1. Renoir, The Daughters of Catulle Mendès

2. Renoir, A Road in Louveciennes

3. Van Gogh, Sunflowers

4. Dewing, Summer

5. Van Gogh, Roses

6. Van Gogh, Irises

7. Renoir, Still Life with Peaches

The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).