the big, long bereavement

"I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice."

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[pangurbitch]

Francis Bacon’s Studio at The Hugh Lane Gallery

[kkurates]

This Place of Ours, JoeLius DuBois

[centuriespast]

Dutch Snow Scene with Skaters Jan Griffier I (c.1652–1718) Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not. -- Shakespeare

[missvestigiality]

La Perle (The Pearl) - Ernest Louis Lessieux - 1901

[artistsandtheirwork]

In The Make visits Monica Canilao in her studio, November 2011

I am an artist, it’s all I know, it’s all I do. If other things are realized through my art such as community building, activism or teaching… that’s awesome. First and foremost, I have to create and there is no limit to the things I will use or where I will find materials to create with. Just to list some things I’m about: used found and recycled things, painting, drawing, collage, building installations, stick and poke tattoos, hair cutting, boat building, abandoned building and animal touching, jewelry making, clothing making, and etc, etc.

[weepingwidar]

Ken Gun Min (Korean, 1976) - Mongolian Wrestler (2023)

[nobrashfestivity]

Hilma Af Klint, Group VI, Evolution, No. 9, 1908.

Photograph by Albin Dahlström; courtesy the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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[justinneue]

George Nakashima House

[shisasan]

I read of women who give as a reason for their continued interest in work after their marriage the fact that they become restless and bored and lonesome in their houses. I could scarcely believe my eyes. I find an ever deepening joy in solitude and have too much with which to fill my time — to read, to study, to write, to sculpture, to sing and dance — so much, I wish my days and life were longer, and I envy those who have too much time on their hands.

July 13, 1923 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[jetix]

Insect pot by Yui Suzuki, 2025-04-10

[etchingwithaquatint]

Enrique Martinez Celaya, Constellation (Woodrooms) (2002)

[gayartists]

Man With Orange (1920), Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell

[vivalasigh]

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

[ymutate]

Roy Thomas (1949-2004). Canadian indigenous artist

Moose and Wolves, 1977 silkscreen

[nobrashfestivity]

Félix Vallotton, The Rising Tide, 1913

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[softiekurbie]

Yemanjá, Lady of the Waters, Emerson Rocha, 2026.