A Certain Perspective

communication and inspiration

[poppunkarthistory]

Claude Monet, Edge of the Cliff at Pourville x I Saw Water, Tigers Jaw

[naprasno]

[ritikajyala]

And I asked her, "how do I make peace with the fact that one day my parents won't be alive?"

"You won't", she said. "But life goes on in times of war too. Peace is not a prerequisite for being alive. You'll learn to not flinch or cry at the mention of their name, and you'll go to work and watch television and cook noodles the way they always made."

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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[macrolit]

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[softhe4rted]

Cheryl Strayed - Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

[guooey]

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems : 1965-1975

[soaveintermezzo]

[polkadotmotmot]

Jaime Ellsworth - Moonrise, 2018

[sixalien]

Wonderland Magazine

[eyeinthewall]

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbody)

[sweetestsecrets]

“Am I hypnotized, fascinated by evil because I have none in me? Or is there in me the greatest and secret evil?”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

[primulaceas]

Audre Lorde, “Sister Outsider.” The Black Unicorn

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“(and I think silently: love is a bow-string pulled back to the point of breaking)”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. by Elaine Feinstein, from Bride of Ice: “Poem of the End” (via intopermanence)

[artistsbooks]

Stefan Vanthuyne, Chasing My Dog in the Woods, 2019 Published by Art Paper Editions, Ghent 24 pages, 9 x 14 cm