Rautavaara:

Peggy Kriha Dye and Wallis Giunta in Le nozze di Figaro. Toronto, 2010. (Photo: Bruce Zinger)

hi

hello

Window wings, fragile panes

Shield me from the dark

Warm me with your spark

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Part of my glass wings series

Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie

materials used in art making in history:

squirrels

piss

bones of your enemies

cow gallbladder juice

egg

weed

red bug that really loved poland for some reason?

corrosion

mud

You don't need to buy the most expensive art materials out there to make amazing art. Your pencil is enough.

VERDI: Il Trovatore | Act 4: Mira di acerbe lagrime Metropolitan Opera, 2011

Sondra RADVANOVSKY as Leonora Dmitri HVOROSTOVSKY as Count di Luna

i know that this is like a regular diminutive of rodion but razumikhin referring to him as rodka instead of rodya after ranting about how being around raskolnikhov "made [him] drunk without ever having to go near the stuff" or like "drunk without vodka" is such a fun little rhyme