hartkamer

she/her, 1995, soft

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[bostonpoetryslam]

“Recently I was talking to a writer who described something she did whenever she moved to her writing table. I don’t remember exactly what the gesture was—there is something on her desk that she touches before she hits the computer keyboard—but we began to talk about little rituals that one goes through before beginning to write. I, at first, thought I didn’t have a ritual, but then I remembered that I always get up and make a cup of coffee while it is still dark—it must be dark—and then I drink the coffee and watch the light come. And she said, Well, that’s a ritual. And I realized that for me this ritual comprises my preparation to enter a space that I can only call nonsecular … Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process. For me, light is the signal in the transition. It’s not being in the light, it’s being there before it arrives. It enables me, in some sense.”

— Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134

[cluttrbugs]

My Messy Desk, 2006

[havingapoemwithyou]

Just Once by Anne Sexton

[weltenwellen]

Goatsong Leila Chatti

[carriedawayphotography]

Spring Green

©2025 Carried Away Photography

[holespoles]

Mika Hirasa “A bird tells Spring has come”

[re-0000]

[fiere-violet]

Painting of the northern lights, as observed from Finland, in 1901, by the Danish painter Harald Moltke (1871-1960)

[micromontage]

saturday already. my one precious life.

[peanutsoutofcontext]

Snoopy of the Day

[textilecuisine]

“Spring is coming to the kitchen”, 46 x 57 cm, textile art

See details HERE

[finalboss0-deactivated20241111]

me two minutes after screaming crying and cursing the very fabric of existence: i love how beautiful the world is does anyone else realize that we live in a beautiful land full of wonders and joy..?

[polkadotmotmot]

Tomona Matsukawa - Tonight, was I really with someone?, 2025 - Oil on canvas

[perfectlyunripe]

Vintage pierrot clown lamp.. so cool

[heavensghost]

Everything I feel returns to you somehow

[cat-rabbit]

A Treasured Treasury of Beloved Characters (2024).

Wool felt, cotton lawn, strawboard, embroidery & poly cotton thread, recycled PET stuffing, armature wire, plastic eyes.

Here is a collection of characters I met when I was small, all of whom have stayed with me every day since. They are housed, stitched and squished in this felt book, akin to their arrangement in my brain.

Posters available here.