Manifestation XXXIV - Tribute
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Manifestation XXXIV - Tribute
since you walked away, there are all these secrets and stories that go nowhere as I put them in the vault of things I will never get to tell you
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I tell everyone how I dodged a bullet when it came to you. That you’re a deadbeat, not going anywhere in life. Then, I realize I’m not trying to convince everyone else - I’m trying to convince myself. You were the first guy to make me believe love existed after heartbreak, the first guy to express how badly he wanted to be a dad someday and live for his wife and children, the first guy who held the same values and ideals that I did about life. You were the first guy who looked at me like I was the world. And even though you stopped looking at me that way, I will never let go of the way your eyes took me in every single time we kissed.
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If he misses you, he’ll call just to hear your voice. If he wants you, he’ll say it. And if he cares, he’ll show it. If he has a thought about you, it will come out of his mouth. If you are on his mind non stop, he will do anything he can just to see you. If he truly likes you, he won’t let anything get in the way and fight back just to keep you in his arms. If not, he’s not worth your time because you’re obviously not worth his.
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I wish there was some kind of button that I could push and it would allow me to unlove you. It would make things easier for me. I wouldn’t have spontaneous moments where I think about you and want to die. It would make the process of moving on faster. I wouldn’t ever be hurt by you again even if we are no longer together. I’d be happy.But that’s the thing once you love someone, you can’t unlove them no matter how hard you try. When you love someone, they stick with you for the rest of your life. You will always have a space in my heart.
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I love you. I love you so much it is slowly killing me. I fall more in love with you every single day. Just because we can’t be together right now doesn’t mean you don’t love me, or ill ever stop loving you. All it means is its not our time. Our time will come, i know it will. Because when someones been through as much as we have theres no leaving. Because after all that I’m still here still so in love with you. Because when someone loves someone as much as i love you, theres no such thing as giving up or moving on. I love you forever, i love you always.
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does anyone else constantly get the feeling that you’re running out of time?? and for no reason!! i could be lying in bed in the middle of summer vacation and my mind is like “hurry up!!! before it’s too late!!!” and i’m just like “hurry up and do what?? leave me alone wtf!!!”
I wanna go hiking w Shia LaBeouf I feel like he would listen to all my problems and tell me everything is going to be okay and then throw a rock at me
There is an entire song about why it’s a bad idea to go into the woods with shia labeouf
*points at ur bulge* is this seat taken
Girls are so bold that’s such a turn on
im a guy
Oops lol no thank you
I never offered to give you anything
So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.
The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.
The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)
The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?
People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.
Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.
“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”
Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.
Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.
let go & give 💛
fall studies
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via theliteraryjournals)