Day Dreaming, Mark Borthwick, 1996

It's the distraction that keeps the sadness away

(Treasure) Hunting Jacket, by Diane Savona

Garden spider in its web by Jan Mankes, 1916

The Fainting of Betelgeuse : Begirt with many a blazing star, Orion the Hunter is one of the most recognizable constellations. In this night skyscape the Hunter's stars rise in the northern hemisphere's winter sky on December 30, 2019, tangled in bare trees near Newnan, Georgia, USA.

Old croatian prisoner, met in the street of the commune of Molenbeek, Bruxelles. No name or age

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.

- Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel

“Smoke and you will destroy yourself.”

1980s Russian anti-smoking poster

Opthamologist clinic in Taiwan, 1962, Wang Shuangquan

Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis