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Stairs at <n>Villa Monastero</n> on Lake Como, Italy. Photo by <n>Olya Novacovsky</n>.

A child sits on a <n>Victoria amazonica</n> lily pad at a botanical garden in Beijing, 2020. Photo by <n>VCG</n>.

<n>Australian Trumpet Shell (Syrinx aruanus)</n>, circa 1950s. Sourced by <n>equator</n>.

From the 1991 <n>Esprit</n> 'What would you do?' campaign by photographer <n>Oliviero Toscani</n>.

Ballerina <n>Maya Plisetskaya</n> in a performance of <n>The Swan</n>.

The Wild World of Music

Illustration by <n>Golden Cosmos</n> for a <n>New Yorker</n> profile on neuroscientist <n>David Sulzer</n>.

A watermelon stand in Hyderabad, India. Photo by <n>Jim Goldberg</n>.

From the 1978 book <n>Sensitive chaos: the creation of flowing forms in water and air</n> by <n>Theodor Schwenk</n>.

A detail of the 1924 painting <n>Gala Éluard</n> by artist <n>Max Ernst</n>.

Creative direction by <n>Agnes Buch</n> and <n>Kim Grenaa</n> for <n>Dansk Magazine</n>. Makeup by <n>Gitte Guldhammer</n>.

A <n>Common Morpho</n> butterfly in Santa Catalina, Panama.

A still of <n>Jane Birkin</n> in the 1973 film <n>Projection privée</n>.

<n>OCD</n>, a digital collage by artist <n>Violet Alexandria</n>.

A still of <n>Jane Birkin</n> from a 1969 interview.

Scene from <n>Alfred Hitchcock</n>'s <n>Vertigo</n> (1958) with flowers by <n>Podesta Baldocci Florist</n>.

From the <n>Extreme Beauty</n> series by photographer <n>Felicity Ingram</n>.

<n>Comme des Garçons Shirt</n> Autumn/Winter 2003 advertisement photographed by <n>Roe Ethridge</n>.

Artist <n>Ulay</n>'s Polaroid self-portrait <n>S’he</n>, 1973-74, from his Renais Sense series.

A still from the 1965 film <n>Le Bonheur</n>, directed by <n>Agnès Varda</n>.

Children recreate <n>Henri Matisse</n>'s painting <n>Dance (I)</n> (1909) at the <n>Museum of Modern Art</n>.

An envelope with the phrase '(I feel you),' alluding to the novel <n>Jane Eyre</n>.

Florence. Photo by <n>Dmitry Korobeynik</n>.

Artwork by <n>Collier Schorr</n> for the <n>Comme des Garçons Shirt</n> S/S 2004 campaign, featuring <n>Ryan Taylor</n>.

Illustration by <n>Shira Inbar</n> for <n>The New Yorker</n> article '<n>Can We Stop the Singularity?</n>'.

A snowy day outside <n>Liquor Store Mikawaya</n> in Yukinoshita, Kamakura.

A still of film director <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n> from a 1979 interview.