severely pathological

Українська греко-католицька Церква Різдва Пресвятої Богородиці у Білому Борі Юрій Новосільський

Kiyoshi Saito - Red Poppies, 1948

"Gannet Diving" necklace created by artist Rie Taniguchi, featuring three birds in cascading diving poses

1. an 18th-century illustration of a "Tooth Worm" from an Ottoman Turk dental book 2. A prominent early mention, a Babylonian cuneiform tablet titled "The Legend of the Worm" (sometimes erroneously dated to Sumerian times) recounts how the tooth worm drinks the blood and eats the roots of the teeth "After Anu [had created heaven], Heaven had created [the earth], The earth had created the rivers, The rivers had created the canals, The canals had created the marsh, (And) the marsh had created the worm- The worm went, weeping, before Shamash, his tears flowing before Ea: "What wilt thou give for my food? What wilt thou give me for my sucking?" "I shall give thee the ripe fig, (and) the apricot." "Of what use are they to me, the ripe fig and the apricot? Lift me up and among the teeth and the gums cause me to dwell! The blood of the tooth I will suck, and of the gum I will gnaw its roots!"

The worm went, weeping, before Shamash, his tears flowing before Ea: "What wilt thou give for my food? What wilt thou give me for my sucking?"

"After Anu [had created heaven], Heaven had created [the earth], The earth had created the rivers, The rivers had created the canals, The canals had created the marsh, (And) the marsh had created the worm— The worm went, weeping, before Shamash, his tears flowing before Ea: "What wilt thou give for my food? What wilt thou give me for my sucking?" "I shall give thee the ripe fig, (and) the apricot." "Of what use are they to me, the ripe fig and the apricot? Lift me up and among the teeth and the gums cause me to dwell! The blood of the tooth I will suck, and of the gum I will gnaw its roots!"

A sign at Uyghur dentist office, 2002

I've killed before and I'll kill again

Ukrainian girl by Macoto Takahashi

tori amos by david lachapelle for rolling stone (1998)

harry clarke’s watercolour studies for the eve of st agnes window

from dead ringers

Stephen Tennant