climbing back out of the memory hole

'there is a lot of magic in this world, and most of it is being used against you'

[dancing4heaven]

Making > Consuming

The solution for the eternal child’s desperation is simply to do. Make art, write, clean without thinking, get off the phone [in a word create things and learn to sit with the mistakes, by doing this you accept death by dwelling in the world instead of dwelling in the postponement of fantasy (“i’ll do that when i grow up”)]. Consumption harkens back to life in the womb when everything was provided. We must assert to the subconscious that we are capable of existing in the world by doing things. It’s incredibly difficult, painful, and circuitous but I’m realizing that it’s the only way, because there is no parent who’s going to take care of me anymore.

[jca-archive]

Hisashi Saito, 1985

[389]

Jesse Balmer

[tbcl]

[wavesofundoing]

Kelp Woman, Natalie Karpushenko

[weepingwidar]

Georg Wilson (British, 1998) - Underling (after Gainsborough) (2026)

[bogleech]

Why are there just blobs of fake rubber meat that a bunch of unrelated microbes can build in the dirt but they've only ever been found in china and can't be classified any further than "biological objects"

[bees-with-swords]

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

[hearnoweevil]

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

kʰanish yaka wawa kʰapa tuna, "mayka musum-nanich kʰapa iliʔi?"

tuna yaka wawa "wik. mayka?"

"wik na nanich iliʔi, bət na kəmtəks q̓aləp kʰapa na iɬwəli."

"pus-ikta ma tiki pus iliʔi pus wik na nanich?"

"na t̓uʔan bon kʰapa na iɬwəli pus ɬatwa kʰapa lipʰyi kʰapa stik-iliʔi pi lamətay."

"aɬqi hilu uk. ixt san, aɬqi ma iɬwəli uk kʰəpit-kəmtəks stik-iliʔi pi lamətay."

"alaxti wik na tiki kʰəpit-kəmtəks. anqati na miɬayt kʰapa na hom kʰapa stik-iliʔi."

k̓aʔ kwənat yaka wawa, alaxti kʰapa kʰəltəs ya. "na nanich stik-iliʔi."

k̓ʰanish ya wawa "ma wawa na kʰapa ma nanich."

"stik-iliʔi ɬas munk-tənas nayka. ɬaska munk-ɬatwa nayka kʰapa saltsəqw. yakwa na chaku-hayash. saltsəqw munk-hayash na kʰapa ɬush klis. qʰənchi hayash nayka, aɬqi na lulu ɬush klis kʰapa na hom."

"pus-ikta stik-iliʔi ɬas tiki ɬush klis kʰapa saltsəqw? ɬas t̓uʔan ɬas klis."

"na kʰəpit-kəmtəks. anqati stik-iliʔi ɬas miɬayt kʰapa ɬas hom kʰapa saltsəqw."

[garishlivingroom]

pulling up with my crew Misery and The Academic

[sovietpostcards]

Worker of the Volzhsky Synthetic Fiber Factory. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1967).

[wavesofundoing]

Mark Rothko, address to the Pratt Institute

[garishlivingroom]

my addictive personality means i cannot be trusted with a loaf of bread

[vampire-bunnyy]

Tomie by Junji Ito.

[deathandmysticism]

Camille Flammarion, Mysterious Psychic Forces, 1909

[micromontage]

will you intrinsically understand my vision or are you like the rest of them

[insertionette]

[nobrashfestivity]

Martin Ramirez, Untitled (Galleon on Water). c. 1960–63

gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on pieced paper, 33 x 24 in (all images courtesy Ricco Maresca Gallery unless otherwise noted) 

Martín Ramírez was a self-taught artist who spent most of his adult life institutionalized in California mental hospitals, diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic.