Seiichi Hayashi

‘Nymphomaniac: Vol. II’, Lars von Trier (2013) Chapter 9. The Gun It’s the only way I can live it. I will stand up against all odds, just like a deformed tree on a hill. I will muster all my stubbornness, my strength, my masculine aggression.

Jan van der Kooi (1957, The Netherlands)

Interior scenes

Jan van der Kooi is a Dutch contemporary figurative painter. His work has two main focuses: painting light, often in the same location during different light and seasons (in the manner of Monet or Hammershøi); and traditional drawing in a manner influenced by Michelangelo and other old masters.

Jean Seberg

I wish I’d met you earlier. I really like talking to you. Before Sunrise (1995) dir. Richard Linklater

Hands in Denis Sarazhin’s art

There's a word in Korean: 인연 [in yun] ⁠— it means "providence" or "fate". If two strangers walk by each other in the street, and their clothes accidentally brush, that means there have been eight thousand layers of 인연 between them.

PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016) dir. Tom Ford

Edith Head’s original sketches vs. final designs for Audrey Hepburn — in Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), & Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Tatar girl in folk costume (Source: Vkontakte)