Black Suns and spirals are a staple Iranian Sufi mysticism

Triumphant Return. tsurikawa, 2023.

rule of thumb for Kazakhstan: if you buy a product in a store, and the labelling is *only* in Kazakh, you're in for a wild ride (şūbat: fermented camel milk)

Sunset in the steppes by the sea #artbots #kuindzhi

Kneeling Girl, c. 1900 #artbots #klimt

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Winter Tuva. Photos by Alexander Nerozya

Krasnoyarsk Krai. Photos by Alexander Nerozya

Mount Adams, Washington - Albert Bierstadt, 1875

The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host By John Martin

Portraiture at its most ambitious is the exploration of individuality. John Singer Sargent took on this great theme in 1878 when he was visiting Capri. He persuaded a local girl Rosina Ferrera to pose for several paintings including this sublime portrait.

Latitudine Böcklin - Fabrizio Clerici, 1974

Anne Griswold Tyng, Spiral Extension of Helix from “Form finds Symmetry in Geometry”. 1969.

There’s an artisanal perfume house from Romania (Adi ale Van) that makes some of the sickest perfume bottles I’ve ever seen.

Dorsets (North American Arctic people before Paleo-Inuit) made some beautiful artifacts. Very mysterious population, they vanished after arrival of Paleo-Inuit and there's no modern trace of their genetics.

"The prophet Muhammad" ﷺ Sumi-calligraphy style Japanese Islamicate hanging scroll Designed by Naoki Yamamoto

Lake Baikal, Buryatia

mevlana tomb, konya, turkiye.

Some aspects of reality can only be accessed through play and exploration; can't brute force your way through a door that can only be opened by solving a riddle

jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ "The gods love what is secret and abhor what is obvious.” This is the Indian response—many centuries ahead—to that “hatred of what is secret” on which, according to Guénon the West would be based.