Claire

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It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.

Frances, Frances Ha (2013)

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Rooney Mara eating pie in A Ghost Story / me in the early stages of lockdown

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I’m steady, calm. I slept well. No bad dreams. I am active and engaged. I’m aware of my surroundings and those in my immediate sphere. I’m attentive. I’m focused on the essentials, to the exclusion of all else. I’m unsure of the future, but I’m not concerned. I will rely on those closest to me, and I will share their burdens, as they share mine. I will live and love. Submit.

Roy McBridge, Ad Astra

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By the time you get this message, I'll be in the dead zone. It came a little sooner than we thought, but this means you won't be able to send a message back. So, I just wanted to let you know that I don't need the message because I know everything you wanna say. Just remember it takes eight minutes for light to travel from sun to Earth, which means you'll know we've succeeded about eight minutes after we deliver the payload. All you have to do is look out for a little extra brightness in the sky. So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out and I'll see you in a couple years.

Robert Capa, Sunshine

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Goose Flesh Stock Take exhibition, Trongate 103, June 2015

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HOLY SHIT

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"Trongate 103 is a place to see art, make art, enjoy art and just be creative. Trongate 103 opens the doors to individuals from all backgrounds to develop and enhance their creative abilities and interests through access to a wide range of art forms including film, photography, printmaking, video, painting, ceramics, new media, kinetic sculpture and public art. It also provides a wide and distinctive range of services to users of the building, supporting and developing the careers of professionals artists through access to resources including studios, workshops, networking, training and exhibition opportunities."

Happy 5th birthday to the wonderful arts centre I work at!

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Image selected for Featureshoot's Zoo online group show.

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The Making of an Exhibition 7th Sept - 22nd Sept Maclaurin Art Gallery Rozelle Park Ayr

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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers (via quotethat)