Fax of Life

"I’ll give you what I’ve managed to unearth and the rest will have to wait for the day the páginas en blanco finally speak." -Junot Díaz

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BRENDA SYKES as Judith in Black Gunn (Robert Hartford-Davis, 1972, USA)

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photographs by Luis Marden

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Cottage garden by  Georgianna Lane

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jalilnajafov on ig

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Chipped and worn away, broken heart here and unkept promise there..🦋

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Solar system Embroidery // OphelieTrichereau

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KAYAPO COURAGE: “The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or risk losing a way of life.” ~ Chip Brown.  photography by Martin Schoeller - full story & gallery via National Geographic (January 2014)

“YNHIRE expresses his identity as a warrior with a headdress of parrot feathers.”

“BEPRO wears the beads and cotton-wrapped earrings that boys receive as part of their naming ceremony.”

“ROPNI, an internationally known chief, is one of the few Kayapo who still wear the mahogany lip plate.”

“PHNH-OTI has an inverted V shaved into her scalp, a ceremonial female practice.”

“BEPRAN-TI wears an impressive display of feathers for his betrothal ceremony, a Kayapo rite of passage.”

“MEKARON-TI, the great chief, speaks Portuguese and is a powerful advocate for his people.”

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Eartha Kitt & her daughter prepping freshly picked vegetables from their garden

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“We’ll dance a little, you and me.” “Do we have time?” ”We have time. Always.”

“Summer school students of Miss Margaret Morris rehearse on the beach, 1934,” ph. Kent Walmert

Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved

“Rock ‘n Roll sur les Quais de Paris (Rock ‘n Roll under the quays in Paris - detail),” ca. 1955, ph. Paul Almasy

Jack Gilbert, “Ovid in Tears”

William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale

“Couple at a dance, 1960 (detail)″, ph. Diane Arbus

Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles

Wendell Berry, “Horses”

Mediterraneo, (dir. Gabriele Salvatores, 1991).

Awa Yoshikono chant, from the Awa Odori dance festival, Japan

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FRANCINE EVERETT in DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM, U.S.A. (1946) dir. Spencer Williams

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Jeszika Le Vye - Monsters Above

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Ruby Myers (1920′s)

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Mamo Clark (1935)

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1964

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Warwick, Paris, 1964.