Anais-noir - Love Stays Alive In Our Gardens Of Eden

Her name was Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau.

She was 19.

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Perfect little goddesses 💖

Made by me

Megan’s Instagram Update (November 24, 2021)

BIRTH OF VENUS /c. 1484-86/ SANDRO BOTTICELLI

The painting illustrates the birth of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, as suggested by the title. She appears as a fully grown woman emerging from the sea, just as described in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. On the left side, you can see Zephyr and Aura, personifications of the winds, who have carried Venus to the shore.

Venus is portrayed as the epitome of Renaissance beauty, with her golden-red hair and fair skin. On the right, the Hora of Spring, who serves as Venus’s attendant, stands ready to cover the modest goddess. Venus stands on a scallop shell, her stance is in a classic contrapposto position, where she rests most of her weight on one foot, causing her upper body to twist slightly to a three-quarter view.

Botticelli's use of imagery is often thought to be influenced by Neo-Platonic ideas. According to this interpretation, Venus represents two aspects: her earthly side, which embodies physical beauty, and her heavenly side, which symbolizes intellectual beauty.

The "Birth of Venus" is thought to have been commissioned by Lorenzo de' Medici of Florence. The orange trees along the shore are the Medici family’s emblem. The painting itself is made up of two separate pieces that were stitched together before Botticelli began working on it.

WILDSIDE by NORMANI JULY 15TH

Mereba ᵇʸ ᶜʰᵃʳˡᵉˢ⁻ᴱᵈᵒᵘᵃʳᵈ ᴰᵃⁿᵍᵉˡˢᵉʳ

Excerpt: [ “These mirrors know our secrets. They witnessed our wild, our highs spent riding the wind and they watched as all the storms started circling our dunes … Strangers once,  turned to strangers again. And if these mirrors could speak.. Their voices just might crack, and shake, and shatter the glass into fragments … Take a piece of my Love, we been through enough stuff, now we need to grow up, and Away.” — Mereba, video for Sandstorm (2019) ]

bell hooks, from When angels speak of love, 2007

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