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textures / marion bay, tasmania

[peelingmandarins]

“Loving masculinity in a woman differs crucially in one way from loving it in a man: In her it is a badge of standing out, not of fitting in. It is grown into through pain, or at least a sense of separation from those less different.”

— Carol A. Queen, ‘Why I Love Butch Women’, Dagger: On Butch Women (via stonefemblues)

[zegalba]

Sade (1994)

[animalinterlace-deactivated2022]

The Cat’s Mill (1993)

[spirit-of-art]

Follower of Rembrandt, A man seated reading at a table in a lofty room, c.1630

[fieldskjellerup]

Jewellery by @miyakumo

[re-0000]

SCAPE EXPO 2000  

Designed by Barefoot Design

Hannover, Germany (2000)

“Designed as a multilayered perception space which enabled physical and virtual experiences at the same time: In several lounges with different themes visitors could alter their surroundings atmospherically using interactive installations.

The design of both the real and the virtual architecture was developed from the conceptional approach of ‘genetic architecture’ which achieved its first realization in this project. The organically shaped, textile structures were designed with reference to computer simulated growth processes. They symbolize the increasing convergence of biology and technology.” –  World-Architects

[king-of-uruk]

Grand camée de France.

[peelingmandarins]

“Spirits and gods were woven into the fabric of ancient life not because of a lack of scientific knowledge, but because our ancestors lived in the larger world; one not designed by humanity. It was a bristling place, it was Nature entire, with all its merciless peril and untamed wonderment. The shelter that our ancestors forged from the living real was far thinner than the bubble within which modern humanity moves. What’s more, the ancients comprehended this far more readily than modern folk do. The fierce, unveiled wilderness was just outside the door of those houses of wattle and daub. Night truly fell in those fire-lit villages. Darkness meant something to our ancestors. Today we have lost this connection because we are quite literally addicted to light. We have washed out all developed areas with constant artificial illumination. Darkness is now often little more than an ambient backdrop to our nocturnal activities.”

— Richard Gavin - The Moribund Portal: Spectral Resonance and the Numen of the Gallows (via forbidden-sorcery)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (Griffin Dunne, 2017)

[ourladyofperpetualnaptime]

ed ruscha, halo, 1986

dry pigment and acrylic on paper

[himitsunomorideshinkokyu]

[peelingmandarins]

“For the first 400 years of its history, capitalism caused immiseration virtually everywhere it went: enclosure, dispossession, genocide, mass enslavement, colonization, famine. It wasn’t until 1870 that we began to see any improvement in life expectancy in Europe, and that was the product of the labour movement and related struggles for democracy, municipal socialism, and basic interventions like public sanitation, public housing, and public healthcare. We don’t see improvement in the global South until progressive movements succeed in achieving decolonization. This history is important, because it reveals that what’s required for progress isn’t growth as such (as in, an aggregate expansion in the commodity economy), but rather a fair distribution of income and opportunity, and access to universal public goods. It’s not rocket science, but it does require a political struggle. So one might say that degrowth redefines progress. The goal is to achieve well-being for all, in balance with the Earth’s ecosystems, and any step we take in this direction (i.e., degrowth) represents progress.”

— Samuel Miller-McDonald, Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way (via probablyasocialecologist)

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Artist: Raili Liaho - Year:  1979

[peelingmandarins]

“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”

— Why I adore the night, by Jeanette Winterson (via lostpolaroids)

[allmycunning]

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Jesus Christ - Brand New

Jesus Christ, that's a pretty face. The kind you'd find on someone I could save. If they don't put me away, It'd be a miracle. Do you believe you're missin' out? That everything good is happening somewhere else? But with nobody in your bed, The night's hard to get through.