Lamia and the Soldier by John William Waterhouse // Go Long by Joanna Newsom

“My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.”

— Joë Bousquet  (via mirroir)

Collection by London-based photographer Louise Hagger, in collaboration with Victoria Granof and JoJo Li

“Leave your body, too, if you’d like. // In my country I dreamed of leaving / my body all the time.”

—  Darrel Alejandro Holnes, from “Tú,” Stepmotherland

“A whiteness that seemed too perfect to be real, showing up the shabby figures that moved against its canvas, their threadbare cloaks of ordinary hours. Like them, she walked without stopping. Through beauty that would disappear–that was disappearing already. Mutely.”

— Han Kang, from “Scattering”, The White Book