A Maoist rebel soldier wearing a Britney Spears t-shirt stands among a battalion of other soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army, First Brigade, Mid Division during a drill in a schoolyard in the village of Gairigaon.

The lion in winter, 1948.

Ingeborg Bachmann

visual representations of how intense heartbreak and loneliness feel

Andrew Wyeth, Wolves, detail

Kuwait, 1991

Valerius de Saedeleer, Winter Landscape, 1931

Layla Al-Attar, Iraqi artist and painter.