not a lot, just forever

she/her « je suis une bête que je ne connais pas »

[pr0ceeding]

Mary Oliver, from “Porcupine” in Devotions: Selected Poem.

[heavensghost]

[fernlights]

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing; when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”

— Tove Jansson, “Moominvalley in November”

[aarchval]

Agnès Varda, A self-portrait in the studio, Rue Daguerre, Paris, 1956.

[worstgirlintheclub]

Louise Bourgeois’s list of wants from her diary, 1962

[fortuneobject]

Various Notes & Letters

Found/Collected Between July 2022-August 2023

(Texas, Seattle, and New York)

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Denis Brihat (1928-2024), Tulipe noire, 1980

[la-novellista]

Art. Leonardo Bistolfi, Il canto d'amore

[petaltexturedskies]

Dacia Maraini, from Dreams of Clytemnestra wr. c. 1994 (tr. by Tim Vode)

[ryebreadgf]

ellen thesleff, summer light in the villa

[petaltexturedskies]

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams

[petaltexturedskies]

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[deloveusion]

real intimacy isn’t built in bedrooms but in conversations where your raw thoughts, fears, and truths are met with love, patience, and a desire to understand

[thunderstruck9]

Ralph Fleck (German, 1951), Stapel 27/VII [Stack 27/VII], 2013. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

[enchantedbook]

'Fairy Tale' by Edward Okuń, 1913

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Stucco policromo con Figure offerenti in edicole e Sileno ebbro su sfondo rosso (VI, 9, 2.13, tablinio 8) Casa di Meleagro, Pompeii Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. 9595, 9625)

[ashstfu]

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average