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weepingwidar

Taína Cruz (American, 1998) - I Am Here Until My Mission Is Complete (2021)

huariqueje

Meteor Shower - Mia Bergeron , 2025.

American, b. 1979 -

Oil on panel , 11 x 14 in. 27.94 x 35.56 cm.

thingsfromthedirt

Alan Parry

petaltexturedskies

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (originally published in 1977)

miamaimania

“Nails” (1999) ⊞ Michiko Matsushita — computer parts and wires embedded under clear acrylic

if i swapped brains with a person without ocd, i would be utterly perplexed by how they think and experience life. lmaooo

vintageeveryday

On May 31, 2006, Michael Jackson made a legendary unannounced appearance on SMAP×SMAP, the massively popular variety show hosted by Japan’s iconic boy band, SMAP. The historic segment, which later aired on June 5, 2006, remains celebrated as one of the most memorable and wholesome celebrity surprises in television history.

milksockets

So it is not that real kindness requires people to be selfless, it is rather that real kindness changes people in the doing of it, often in unpredictable ways. Real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences. It is a risk precisely because it mingles our needs and desires with the needs and desires of others, in a way that so-called self-interest never can. (The notion of self-interest implies that we always know what we want, by knowing what the self is and what its interests are. It forecloses discovery.) Kindness is a way of knowing people beyond our understanding of them. By involving us with strangers (even with “foreigners” thousands of miles away), as well as with intimates, it is potentially far more promiscuous than sexuality.

On Kindness - Adam Phillips + Barbara Taylor