Through The Fire (2016) - Jean Labourdette

Hand and a half sword, Germany, circa 1530

from The State Art Collection Dresden

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

Lizz Lopez

"The rational mind seeks clarity, but clarity often comes only after we surrender to the unknown." - Carl Gustav Jung

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ― Franz Kafka

Witches' Sabbath by Francisco de Goya, 1798 [x]

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934