SUGAR + MEOWS

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The mood board of my life. I like cats, science, art, ephemera, classic Hollywood, fashion, mysticism, oddities, and my home of New York City.

Posts tagged shadow

Jul 21

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself.” – Djuna Barnes (American, 1892–1982), Nightwood (1936)

May 13

The Shadows on the Wall/Chrysanthemums – Adolf de Meyer (1868–1949)

Apr 22

Jean Arthur and a frightening shadow

Mar 31

A Sphere Lit From the Top, Four Sides, and All Their Combinations – Sol Lewitt

Nov 30

By Rita Vita Finzi

Nov 17

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Jean Noël de Soye, Shadow of a child playing with his sweater near Saint Marc Plaza, Venice, Italy, 1992-1999

Oct 31

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings—always darker, emptier, and simpler.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (German, 1844–1900)

Oct 30

From Vampyr (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

Poster for Théâtre du Châtelet’s “Les Pilules du Diable” by Alfred Choubrac (1853–1902)

Oct 10

Interior—Beauty Parlor (1909) – Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881–1946)

My favorite piece by Spilliaert—I actually had to scan it to share on Tumblr, as I couldn’t find a scan online. The hanging coats resemble shadows or even bodies. There are so many ways to read this piece, all at the same time.

Aug 28

Gloria Stewart in The Old Dark House (dir. James Whale, 1932)

She is stunning in this film.

Aug 18

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda (1904–73), from Sonnet XVII

Aug 10

Cecil Beaton (1904–80)

The composition of this image kills me with its perfection.

Jul 31

Pools (1997) – Ed Ruscha

Jul 23

Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case (1929)

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