Jane Poupelet, around 1911

Giovanni Boldini, Peaceful Days 1875

A Rossiter Kind of Day

Alison Rossiter, Darko (Sears Roebuck) Rough, exact expiration date unknown, c. 1940's 

Insects and Men

" There is no god in his heaven, so far as man can see. The truth is, Nature is a slaughter house. There are some pleasant sensations, some pleasures, which many would deprive us of, and scattered along the path is trouble and misery, and in the end, tragedy. It is all a nightmare, if you think. The animals have the advantage of us, they do not think, they simply live. " Insects and Men: Instinct and Reason, Clarance S. Darow.

Beatrice d´Este

Leonardo da Vinci 1490

" It´s germinal principle the unfathomable smile, always with a touch of something sinister in it... maybe, in this case, the presentiment of early death." Walter Pater

chica et chico

Pere Formiguera 2006

Time traveling in a flip book. Kids becoming teens in a few seconds... One thus imagines to see somebody from birth to death...

Right After

Eva Hesse 1969

"Absurdity is the key word" she declared, declining to sentimentalize or romanticize the circumstances of her life, preferring to produce art that pushed at the conventions of abstraction, eroticism and sheer ugliness. The Accidental Masterpiece- Michael Kimmelman.