Between the devil and the deep blue sea

 

Henry Fuseli, Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis (1794-1796)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Spring 1988 Bulletin: Photography Between the Wars

Link here.

Took me back through a door I had closed long ago / I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment

Herbie Hancock, "I Thought It Was You"

And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors

were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back

my too-sudden image.

I don't know how I belong to you but I do somehow

@, "Autosmile"

 

Suzanne Jackson, Sapphire & Tunis (2010-11)

Several girls galore

Odion Redon lithographs of Beatrice Potinari, 1897.

 

Ringing through my brain

 

Piero della Francesca, The Annunciation (1452-66)

 

90 degrees every fucking day

 

Joseph Wright of Derby, Two Boys with a Bladder (1767)