Nicolas Robert
@robertsnickc.bsky.social
Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
January 24, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.”
~ Madame Deluzy (1813–1875)
#Photography, Bette Davis as Madame Deluzy in ‘All This, and Heaven Too,’ 1940.
~ Madame Deluzy (1813–1875)
#Photography, Bette Davis as Madame Deluzy in ‘All This, and Heaven Too,’ 1940.
January 24, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.”
~ Madame Deluzy (1813–1875)
#Photography, Bette Davis as Madame Deluzy in ‘All This, and Heaven Too,’ 1940.
~ Madame Deluzy (1813–1875)
#Photography, Bette Davis as Madame Deluzy in ‘All This, and Heaven Too,’ 1940.
The two most salient facts of our reality are ecological collapse & income inequality, & the response by every person with authority is a chaotic swing among denial (“it isn’t real”), defeatism (“it can’t be helped”), & sneering rationalization (“only the unworthy suffer”).
Gerry Canavan
#drawing
Gerry Canavan
#drawing
January 24, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The two most salient facts of our reality are ecological collapse & income inequality, & the response by every person with authority is a chaotic swing among denial (“it isn’t real”), defeatism (“it can’t be helped”), & sneering rationalization (“only the unworthy suffer”).
Gerry Canavan
#drawing
Gerry Canavan
#drawing
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ From ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf (1929)
Book cover #illustration.
~ From ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf (1929)
Book cover #illustration.
January 24, 2026 at 2:45 PM
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ From ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf (1929)
Book cover #illustration.
~ From ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf (1929)
Book cover #illustration.
‘Teucer.’ #Sculpture by Sir Hamo Thornycroft (1881) #art
January 24, 2026 at 2:36 PM
‘Teucer.’ #Sculpture by Sir Hamo Thornycroft (1881) #art
#Photography, Adolph Sutros's Cliff House, also known as '‘The Gingerbread Palace,’ a seven-story Victorian chateau perched on top of a cliff in San Francisco. Sadly it burned to the ground in 1907.
Courtesy of Keystone Real Photo Stereoview.
Courtesy of Keystone Real Photo Stereoview.
January 24, 2026 at 2:33 PM
#Photography, Adolph Sutros's Cliff House, also known as '‘The Gingerbread Palace,’ a seven-story Victorian chateau perched on top of a cliff in San Francisco. Sadly it burned to the ground in 1907.
Courtesy of Keystone Real Photo Stereoview.
Courtesy of Keystone Real Photo Stereoview.
January 24, 2026 at 2:20 PM
January 24, 2026 at 2:15 PM
January 24, 2026 at 10:56 AM
The ‘ordinary’ lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.
~ Carl Jung (1946)
#Painting
~ Carl Jung (1946)
#Painting
January 24, 2026 at 10:51 AM
The ‘ordinary’ lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.
~ Carl Jung (1946)
#Painting
~ Carl Jung (1946)
#Painting
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 AM
‘Rain Light,’ by W.S. Merwin (1927-2019)...
#Photography, Carl Mydans, ‘Hands Belonging to an Old Woman.’
#Photography, Carl Mydans, ‘Hands Belonging to an Old Woman.’
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 AM
‘Rain Light,’ by W.S. Merwin (1927-2019)...
#Photography, Carl Mydans, ‘Hands Belonging to an Old Woman.’
#Photography, Carl Mydans, ‘Hands Belonging to an Old Woman.’
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 AM
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 AM
January 24, 2026 at 10:17 AM
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 AM
‘Un chat noir s'avance à pas feutrés dans la neige dans la cour de la rue Daguerre.’
#Photography by Agnès Varda (c. 1952), 14e arrondissement, #Paris
#Photography by Agnès Varda (c. 1952), 14e arrondissement, #Paris
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 AM
‘Un chat noir s'avance à pas feutrés dans la neige dans la cour de la rue Daguerre.’
#Photography by Agnès Varda (c. 1952), 14e arrondissement, #Paris
#Photography by Agnès Varda (c. 1952), 14e arrondissement, #Paris
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
January 24, 2026 at 9:48 AM
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
January 23, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Nae treasures, nor pleasures
Could make us happy lang;
The heart ay ’s the part ay,
That makes us right or wrang.
~ From ‘Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet’ by Robert Burns (1785)
#Painting, ‘The Skating Minister’ by Henry Raeburn, 1790.
Could make us happy lang;
The heart ay ’s the part ay,
That makes us right or wrang.
~ From ‘Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet’ by Robert Burns (1785)
#Painting, ‘The Skating Minister’ by Henry Raeburn, 1790.
January 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Nae treasures, nor pleasures
Could make us happy lang;
The heart ay ’s the part ay,
That makes us right or wrang.
~ From ‘Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet’ by Robert Burns (1785)
#Painting, ‘The Skating Minister’ by Henry Raeburn, 1790.
Could make us happy lang;
The heart ay ’s the part ay,
That makes us right or wrang.
~ From ‘Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet’ by Robert Burns (1785)
#Painting, ‘The Skating Minister’ by Henry Raeburn, 1790.
Hypnos, the Greek personification of sleep.
#Photography by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1915) #art #sculpture
#Photography by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1915) #art #sculpture
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hypnos, the Greek personification of sleep.
#Photography by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1915) #art #sculpture
#Photography by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1915) #art #sculpture
January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM