(Source: tripthelightfantastik, via hunting-wolverines)
Ray Donley, Ecce Homo (2007) /
(Source: antitacta, via thehiddenscience)
Ray Donley, Figure with skull - Vanitas (2010) /
(Source: antitacta, via thehiddenscience)
Gerard Garouste, La dame du Coche (1998) /
Salvador Dalì, Burning giraffes and telephones /
Gérard Garouste, Le Pacte (2011) /
La tentation de Saint Antoine, Fèlicien Rops (1878) /
Arsène Welkin /
Carl Lohse, Vorlesen/Reading aloud (1920) /
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Selbstbildnis als Kranker/Self-portrait as being ill (1918) /
Cinémathèque: Steven Soderbergh’s “Sex, lies and videotapes” (1989) /
The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, which originates from within Greek language.
It represents the perpetual cyclic renewal of life and infinity, the concept of eternity and the eternal return, and represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth, leading to immortality, as in the phoenix.
The Ouroboros can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting before any beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished.
Carl Jung interpreted the Ouroboros as having an archetypal significance to the human psyche. The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes of it as a representation of the pre-ego “dawn state”, depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience of both mankind and the individual child.
(Source: relic.bigcartel.com, via r-e-l-i-c)
Unknown title, Michael Triegel (?) /
Interior with plant, reflection listening (self-portrait), Lucian Freud (1968) /
