wounds – Page 9 – Little Bristling Soul

The flash of the atomic blast in Hiroshima burned the pattern of this woman’s kimono into her skin.

koredzas:

Cima da Conegliano – Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints. Detail. 1496 – 1499

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Source: meliae

Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes

aranrhod:

anne carson, from plainwater

Christ ressuscité (c. 1480) – Palais de l’évêque Erazm Ciotek – Cracovie (Voïvodie de Petite-Pologne)

The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.

Jacques Derrida (trans. Alan Bass), The Postcard: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond (via stoicremains)

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Drawing of St. Gemma Galgani’s holy wounds by her spiritual director, Venerable Father Germanus

nuclearharvest:

City of the Broken Dolls by Romain Slocombe 1997

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the-end-of-art:

“The risen Jesus does not appear as the powerful one, but as the wounded and forgiving one.” From Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John by Jean Vanier.