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Seascape - Saskia Boelsums, 2026.

Ducht, b. 1960-

Archival pigment print on dibond, 30 x 30 cm.

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Spring showers lead to murky waters

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“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

— Alain de Botton

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It's not your job to manage other people's feelings. You do not have to anticipate other people's responses to you or their general mood in order to establish any sort of feeling of safety for yourself.

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And so I also by absence because of absence turn away

— Kim Hyesoon, from "By Absence More Than Presence," The Hell of That Star, tr. Cindy Juyoung Ok

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Mediterranean Garden - Ruth Stage , 2024.

British , b. 1969 -

Egg tempera and handmade gesso on panel , 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. 45 x 60 cm.

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For years I lived Maggie Smith

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“I felt very sad so I sat down. I felt so sad that I rested my head on my own knees and smoothed my own head. I felt so sad I couldn’t imagine feeling any other way again. I said, I don’t like this. I don’t want to do this anymore. And I went back to lying in bed, just before the doorbell rang.”

— Jamaica Kincaid, from “What Have I Been Doing Lately,” At the Bottom of the River (via lifeinpoetry)