G I N K G O

arrow in the quiver

[allsadnshit]

Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

[monsterlogic]

[julia-famula]

ghostly hare

[noirage]

Paul Klee - Dance of Horror

[kakfa]

the contents page of Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins

[letterful]

— from an interview for The Paris Review’s “Art of Fiction” series.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality... Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

5. Wit and Play..for the human element.

6. The ephemeral and chance...for the human element.

7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

[softinvasions]

Object / Subject / Muse / Artist

[ymutate]

Bill Mayer

"Black Goldfish at the Cliffs"

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[est-nord]

[vedurnan]

6th grade math problem:

Words were exchanged between friends – the house of human companionship was established in secret – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed

A) The house was diminished!

B) The house was strengthened!

C) The house was swept away!

D) The house was swept away!

[zegalba]

Yohji Yamamoto autumn/winter 2011

[aletheyass]

exhibiting coffeeless behaviour

[distantvoices]

Michaela Stark by Raga Muñecas

[softwaring]

[strawberryamanita]

A non-binary robot with if/then pronouns. Is this anything

[yama-bato]

woodcut prints by bryan nash gill