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With Glitter In my Eyes - https://mailchi.mp/18b8dbdbc8cc/studio-notes-9

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Cy Twombly, April 25, 1928 / 2022

(image: Werner Schloske (photograph), Cy Twombly, Roma, ca. 1962. Bibl.: Cy Twombly, (2008), Edited by Nicholas Serota, Essays by Nicholas Cullinan, Tacita Dean, and Richard Shiff, Translation by Valentina Ravaglia, Electa, Milano, 2009, p. 246. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Roma, March 5 – May 24, 2009, in collaboration with Tate, London)

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“Small story tending to illustrate how precarious is the stability within which we believe we live, or that the laws could give ground to exceptions, chance, or improbabilities, and here I want you.” -Julio Cortázar.

Ph. Josephine Cardin.

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““There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the Muse of Form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.“ — Wendell Berry”

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“Sky-troubled sea—feeling two kinds of blue.”

— Greg Sellers, journal entry, “Notes from Neruda’s Ghost,” 4 March 2021

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“A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his [her] heart first opened.”

— Albert Camus (via yidan)

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from “October in the Chair,” in M is for Magic, Neil Gaiman (b. 10 Nov 1960)

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Jean Cocteau by Philippe Halsman - 1949

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“Your work is not only books and pictures. They are but bits of it. Your work is You, not less than you, not parts of you… These days when you “cannot work” are accomplishing it, are of it, like the days when you “can work.” There is no division. It is all one. Your living is all of it; anything less is part of it. — Your silence will be read with your writings some day, your darkness will be part of the Light.”

— Mary Elizabeth Haskell in her letter to Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

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Day 16

This is my impression of Baba, my sister's dog. He who looks so much like his “Lolo” Marco who had passed away way too young many years ago. Marco was from Irish' first and last litter, the only brother to Douglas and Piper.

Even after all the years, I still feel a tinge of sadness, especially when remembering that he left unexpectedly early. But, I also feel some joy, upon seeing such an uncanny resemblance between the two. Baba is surely the living, physical embodiment of Marco and it makes me smile.

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Wisdom from the diaries of Wanda Gág (b. March 11, 1893) – a remarkable woman who pulled herself out of poverty by her own efforts, becoming a successful artist, children’s book author, and entrepreneur in the early 20th century, and an influence for creative icons like Maurice Sendak. 

Read more here. 

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Day 15

Its a great day for 'textures-hunting'. My senses are awakened by my direct experience of the world around me. Real life is nourishing. All it needs is our loving presence. I have a strong sense that it is where I need to be more.

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Day 14

These are drawings of my plants on my balcony. I rarely hang out there because its usually too hot. But on that day, I was blessed with fairly good weather. Cool and breezy, it was shocking. It got me thinking about getting an outdoor table. 🤔

With Delta cases still on the rise, coffee and drawing on the balcony is the best I can hope for.... Hays.... Pandemic fatigue is strong today. 

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Seth Godin on vulnerability, creative courage, and how to dance with the fear – magnificent conversation with Debbie Millman