Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

L'angelo, la morte e il diavolo (detail), Roberto Ferri, 2018.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen." — Shannon L. Alder

1912 ~ Anton Robert Leinweber (1845-1921)

“Leo,” linoleum block print. Dragon with Sacred Datura

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of syncronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.”

— Charles de Lint

Spiked dog collar, 17th or 18th century.

Used for hunting dogs to protect the neck from attacks by bears, wolves, or wild boars.

Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.

Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.