if i love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

[header image is mind / heart by kazuaki tanahashi]

[factorweapon]

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[modelsof-color]

Debra Shaw by Alex Black for WWD Magazine February 2026

[mournfulroses]

Zheng Zenduo, transl. by Herbert Batt, from The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry; "Distractions,"

[gougeddoll]

jennifer cantwell, 2011

[seriial]

“the recording is of a blackbird in my garden in the north of scotland. the idea of the piece is that it's a letter home from a migrated bird, telling the family of its new life and making the connection between the migrant and the homeland.” - jennifer cantwell

[weepingwidar]

Lena Keller (German, 1980) - POV (2023)

[thomasmartinnutt]

Chris Coffin. Weather, Waiting for the Winds 551.5, 2003

[random-brushstrokes]

Johan Christian Dahl - The coast at Laurvig, Norway (1840)

[weepingwidar]

Alex Hutton (American, 1992) - Bounce (2024)

[infestuous]

Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube

[chekhovs-raygun]

I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!

it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.

[seekingstars]

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

[letsoulswander]

[ID: the poem "HOW'S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU?"

There's a method of growing rhubarb called "forcing" where it's raised in total darkness and tended to in brief intervals of candlelight. The plant thrives only because it's looking for an absnet sun, and extends to fast you can hear the growing pains. Forcing can weaken the crop but if done correctly can yield a sweeter, more desirable result. Not everything needs to be an allegory. All the same, I am aware that there are things that have happened in my formative years that I have no words to describe and that only God's eyes have seen.]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a short story featured in The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf

[weepingwidar]

Heeyoung Noh (Korean, 1995) - A Mother and Her Daughter (2024)

[expressions-of-nature]

by Igor Svibilsky

[random-brushstrokes]

Cecil Ffrench Salkeld (Irish, 1904-1969) - That Little Tent of Blue

The title of this work, That Little Tent of Blue is based on Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol: "Upon that little tent of blue/which prisoners call the sky" Salkeld is perhaps poking fun at some friends, who appear to be heading home after a night's drinking. Seen through a window, the two men are walking, or staggering, along a pavement, illuminated by a shaft of light. There is a deliberate sense of enigma in the scene, which contrasts the domestic calm of the interior, with a book and flower on the windowsill, with the inebriated antics of the pair outside. The setting is not specified, but is intended to evoke the atmosphere of a prison or institution, the two men being surrounded by tall buildings and darkened windows. (source)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Nicola Samorì (Italian, b. 1977, Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, based Bagnacavallo, Province of Ravenna, Italy) - L’indiano (Blend), 2024, Paintings: Oil on Linen

[thunderstruck9]

Jock Macdonald (Canadian, born Scotland, 1897-1960), Etheric Form, 1934. Oil on plywood.

[herpsandbirds]

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea

photos: Irawan Subingar, Ekhardt Lietzow, Dubi Shapiro