in the small hours

« where the spectres of the beautiful and the damned are preserved forever, their little gestures and banal conversations transformed, by repetition, into holy artefacts »

[mournfulroses]

Cecília Meireles, from a poem titled "Silk and Ashes," featured in Antologia poética

[aura-eden]

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY, Ice Star, 1987

[exhaled-spirals]

The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. III (1925-1930)

[apocryphics]

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Here is one old Korean song I love. It captures the essence of the unique melancholy sound of Korea that I grew up loving. 

[i-eviscerate]

Claire Finin - The Things I Never Said (2012) 

Mother’s handkerchief, human hair 12 x 12”

[exhaled-spirals]

« Women need muscle, as much as they can muster. They need muscle to shield their light bones, and they need muscle to weather illness. And being strong in a blunt way, a muscleheaded way, is easier than being skilled at a sport. It is a democratic option, open to the klutzes and the latecomers, and women should seize the chance to become cheaply, fowzily strong, because the chance exists […]. Being strong won’t make you happy or fulfilled, but it’s better to be sullen and strong than sullen and weak. […]

What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they’re not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation […]. »

— Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography

[galina]

Coffee stains your teeth and dehydrates your body. Models, for instance, are strongly advice not to drink coffee

wow bet you’re fun at parties

[moldavia]

ph. Billy & Hells

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[ohk4te]

that extra coffee i had did not increase my motivation. it did, however, project me into some astral plane

[last-picture-show]

Gjon Mili, Jascha Heifetz in Mili’s darkened Studio as Light attached to his Bow Traces the Bow Movement, New York, 1952

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

due to personal reasons I’ll be in my bedroom making no noise and pretending that I don’t exist

[thearrogantemu]

I really really love this paper where Tolkien is trying to work out exactly what Sauron’s handwriting would look like. 

(It’s various attempts at the inscription on the Ring, as seen in the Tolkien exhibition currently on view at the Morgan library).

[exhaled-spirals]

The fact of English supremacy is something most native speakers of English unknowingly suppress, all the while enjoying the privileges that come with it. Many non-English-speaking populations, however, cannot afford to suppress that fact but are forced to face it in one way or another, though their writers generally turn their backs on the linguistic asymmetry lest they end up too discouraged to write, overwhelmed by the unfairness of it all.

Mizumura Minae, The Fall of Language in the Age of English; 2015

[bienenkiste]

“Tracing Perfection”. Leah Rodl by Jack Johnstone for Lissome February 2019

[petitepointplace]

Embroidered gloves from Norway and Sweden.  

[theepitomeofquiet]

shrimps