悠然自得

"The most important things are the hardest to say"

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“This is not the sort of thing that shows up in satellite photographs. Whether in CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, or in the East Asian studies department of a university, people usually analyze North Korea from afar. They don’t stop to think that in the middle of this black hole, in this bleak, dark country where millions have died of starvation, there is also love.”

— Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy:  Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe photographed by Norman Seeff, 1969.   

“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”- Patti Smith

In her memoir Just Kids, Patti Smith details her intense relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in which they struggle to become artists in New York City. They lived together at the Hotel Chelsea – home to numerous writers, musicians, actors and artists. Patti supported Robert by working in bookstores, he soon flourished as a photographer and encouraged her to pursue visual art. As a writer, Patti eventually turned her poems into songwriting. For the cover of her debut album, Horses (1975), Patti used a portrait Robert took. Once Robert came out as a gay man their intimate relationship ended but they remained friends until his death from HIV/AIDS in 1989.

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One Fine Spring Day (2001) dir. Hur Jin Ho

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the neighbors’ roof

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Naples, Italy 35mm - ig: danielamenenti

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Superbloom

Diamond Valley Lake, California

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Via @ michelledelrio

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Faber Franco

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Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951), Oranges on a Branch March 14, 1992, 1992. Tar, spackle and oil on tile over Masonite, 247.7 x 245.7 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts

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