adrift but still engaged--“Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to go...

 

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges -

Credit: Elizabeth Sagan

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“ Girl Reading in an Interior (c.1900). Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (Danish, 1863-1935). Oil on canvas.
Holsøe was renowned for interior scenes, often sparsely furnished rooms. Holsøe frequently included a single, invariably, female figure. As in...

books0977:

Girl Reading in an Interior (c.1900). Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (Danish, 1863-1935). Oil on canvas.

Holsøe was renowned for interior scenes, often sparsely furnished rooms. Holsøe frequently included a single, invariably, female figure. As in this work, Holsøe achieves a defined space in these interiors through harmonious colours, subdued light and the careful juxtaposition of objects.