By Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

Glow worm cave, New Zealand By danielkordan

Colorful memories

All the paintings i have done for Nucleus Portland's annual postcard show opening on December 15th! The originals will be available to purchase there and then online (I'll link them to you once it's done) These paintings are memories from my summer. Lately I've grown quite tired of always painting sunny landscapes, so, i've tried to paint other mood as well. I hope you will enjoy them :)

Ohlsdorf Cemetary ♰ [Hamburg, Germany]

Velkominn, blíði vegfarandi, til Jǫtunn-Halla háva, þar sem sálir várar reika, en aldregi týnask.

Velkommen, blid vegfarende, til den høye Jotnerhallen, der hvor våre sjeler vandrer, men går aldri seg vill.

A Cloud and Landscape Study by Moonlight by Johan Christian Dahl

Silver Cup with depictions of the goddess Freya (1000 AD),

From the Viking hoard found in Lejre in 1850.

National Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark

L'étoile. :: [Guillaume Gris]

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You are here where bloodlines and rivers are woven together. I followed the river until I forgot my name and came here to the mouth of the canyon to swim in the rain and remember this, the most indigenous joy I know: to wade into the river naked among the moss and stones, to drink water from my hands and be alive in the river, the river saying, You are here, a daughter of stardust and time. Ansel Elkins - from “Native Memory”

[Thanks oof poetry]

I hate reading a cool piece of folklore and tracking down its location, only to find out the location has long since been paved over >:(

According to legend, the legendary Danish hero Holger Danske once got a pair of magical glasses from a witch that would allow him to see through anything. He tested them on Nørre Fælled, a well-known right outside Copenhagen, where he laid down and saw straight through the Earth. But when he stood up again, two big holes were left behind, which later filled with water and became lakes.

This map was made in the 1600s, where the glasses-lakes are clearly visible

Nowadays there's just a big dumb hospital in its place, and no sign left of Holger Danske or his witch glasses >:(