Fettling

 

[songsforgorgons]

Carmen Goodyear, one of the founders of Country Women magazine, and her wife Laurie York.

“Carmen Goodyear and Laurie York, partners in farm and marriage, have for decades forged an existence removed from consumerism, rooted in communal living, and above all, situated close to nature. This farm and preserve is where they have raised goats, sheep, chickens, and bees; where they have grown a mammoth garden that supplies most of their food; where they have helped wage successful battles against offshore oil drilling, a nuclear power plant, and GMOs; where they have, after many years together, gotten legally married …” 

— From “Country Women” by Rebecca Bengal for Vogue, June 25, 2017. Photographs by Amanda Jasnowski Pascual.

[dream-and-delirium]

Quilt by Ruth Kennedy, c. 1950

[imcubo]

frescos in the villa Santo Sospir, by Jean Cocteau

[equatorjournal]

alexander girard

[rivesveronique]

“A day with Marie Vassilieff ”, Pierre Delbo , “Costume Arlequine de Marie Vassilieff pour le Bal Banal”, 1924, Collection Claude Bernès

Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva dite Marie Vassilieff, née le 12 février 1884 à Smolensk en Russie et morte le 14 mai 1957 à Nogent-sur-Marne en France, est une artiste peintre et sculptrice russe.

[tseneipgam]

Mark Adams watercolours 

[nevver]

What we’re reading, Mary Ellen Bartley (thanks)

[artycles]

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“You and i are Earth 1661”. Tin-glazed earthenware plate found in a London sewer, from the Wellcome Collection’s “Dirt” exhibition.

[hutno5]

[shaqsince95]

shes too elite

[invisiblestories]

We abide by cultural directives that urge us: clarify each thought, each experience, so that you can cull from them their single, dominant meaning and, in the process, become a responsible adult who knows what he or she thinks. But what I try to show is the opposite: how at every moment, the world presents us with a composition in which a multitude of meanings and realities are available, and you are able to swim, lucid and self-contained, in that turbulent sea of multiplicity.

Richard Foreman, quoted by Maggie Nelson in The Art of Cruelty (via arabellesicardi)

*cries into my hands*

(via arabellesicardi)

[ourwakingsoules-deactivated2019]

Kraus insists that all sorts of experience—even romantic obsession, dependence, and desperate pursuit, stereotypically “female” states of abjection—hold universal significance. They carry truths that radiate beyond the bedroom, the finger-fuck, the House of Pies parking lot. She wants to push back against the limited ways in which vulnerability and self-exposure are read: “Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?” In “Aliens & Anorexia,” she thinks about artists who accomplish some version of this remove: Damien Hirst putting his sliced carcasses behind glass, his desire to “create emotions scientifically.” Emotion is “just so terrifying,” she writes, “the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form.” Analyzing vulnerability is not the same as enacting it; describing positions of pain and longing isn’t an admission of powerlessness but an act of assertion, a way of saying, this female consciousness can hold these states of pain and longing as well.

This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus - The New Yorker (via aranrhod)

[nightsalt]

I’ve been sorting out all my old diaries today - I’m so pleased I still have them all and didn’t burn them all in a ceremonial Beltane fire (which was a real possibility c.2012). I’ve kept them since I was 7 ish, then took a break and started again in earnest when I was 13:

2003: “me I’m moving to move house I’m very sad that I’m leaving all my friends, all my love and all of my love Matilda”

2004: “The party afterwards  was a bit better. For lunch I had two glasses of coke-a-cola and a ham finger, for pudding I had peach, apple, mango, kiwi, strawberry and christening cake (no marzipan). Luke and Lowy played with Luke’s top trumps. I had lots of sweeties = 5 tick tacks, 1 mint and 1 wine gum.”

2004-5: “my bed was straight and the room was small and dark. It was easy to get to sleep because the boat rocked slowly.” 

2010: “gayist people are so horrible. Elaria/ Liz say gay people burn in hell! why do they? Gays are perfects nice, normally more than most people, why are people like that! There are gay vicars!  

[fettling]

I’ve moved house to nightsalt and I’m posting my old diaries at the moment, follow me there instead if you like.

[fettling]

Look I’ve made a new blog, a blog in which I’m a Real Person. I kind of like fettling how it is and it’s time for me to move tabernacle and get a new shell that fits me better.  So although I might come back here once in a while I’ll be mostly at nightsalt now.

[anneboyer]

Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes...

[luuvjones]

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noah davis

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il deserto rosso(1964)

Director:Michelangelo Antonioni

[tarbor]

Photography – Shoji Ueda