Maybe if I were pretty again.

Art from the book Ymir’s Flesh: North European Creation Mythologies, by Alby Stone.

Bronze fibula uncovered near Kielpino, Poland, Hallstatt culture, 750-550 BC
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter; and we live that way because we have lost the habit of sacrifice and are striving always to avoid it. The false art of our time, mired in kitsch and desecration, is one sign of this.”
— Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Flurry - Mia Bergeron , 2024.
American, b. 1979 -
Small colour acrylic on Yupo paper , 5 x 5 in.

Jeff Olsson. Trädet/ The Tree, 2023.
charcoal, dry pastel + graphite powder on paper

Drinking horn, Scandinavia or Northern Germany, early 15th century
from The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna