freakyfauna:

Stahl’s chain-nose pliers

Beauties of the Common Tool by Walker Evans.

Fortune magazine July 1955.

Found here.

freakyfauna:

A leather-bound birdwatching guide from my dad’s library.

yama-bato:

Chinese porcelain; (1908)

Author: Hsiang Yuan-pien, 16th cent; Bushell, S. W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908
Subject: Pottery — China History
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press

poorartists:

Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light.

“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”