an experiment in image association

(the remains of my we heart it account)

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—Felix Salten

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Wenceslaus Hollar’s Three Butterflies and a Wasp

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Catrin Welz-Stein’s Cocoon

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Stephen Mackey’s Madame Honeysuckle

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Catrin Welz-Stein’s Inkognito

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“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” —Gertrude Stein

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pink sweet peas circa 1920

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Penelope Neil’s still life

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“Out of perversity we join hands.” —the Lolligags

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bas-relief of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

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by Amy LeFeuvre

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea...

... by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red & brown... ... till human voices wake us, & we drown.”

—T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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† ‡ † —Belladonna of Sadness

“Delenda est belladonna!”

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Rogelio de Egusquiza’s Tristan & Isolde

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Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus

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Henry Fuseli’s Nightmare

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Vincenz Georg Kininger’s Dream of Countess Marguerite of Flanders, based on Salvatore Viganò’s ballet Richard the Lionheart

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The Soul Hovering over the Body by William Blake for Robert Blair’s poem, The Grave

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Le déséquilibre amoureux by Colette Saint Yves

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Edward Gorey’s The Gilded Bat

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Alla Nazimova in Salomé

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Erté’s The Golden Pearls

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