[gunmetallic]

⸺ on soulmates and suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky // via tullipsink // Faiz Ahmed Faiz // Margaret Atwood // sam sax // Mary Shelley. also see: soulmate (horror)

[unchildhood]

ANIS MOJGANI x ALEXANDER HARDING

‘For Those Who Can Still Ride In An Airplane For The First Time’, spoken word, uploaded on Youtube on 20 Apr. 2009;

Visible Light series (2010), photography

[eflatminorseven]

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

[nervebynerve]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

[soracities]

Jean Valentine, from “Sanctuary”

[lacetulle]

Almée Couture | Whisper of the Earth

[philosophybits]

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

[newvision]

from Untitled 1975–86, Jason B Crawford, after Alvin Baltrop & Frank O’Hara

[catilinas]

Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

[nyctaeus]

Lucy Glendinning - ‘Featherchild’

[henk-heijmans]

Makenna Cart, 2022 - by Szilveszter Makó, Hungarian

[smsomah]

Newar; gold mundri (left), small hoops with fish pendants. Gold tuki (right) , worn by married women. Scanned from the book The Jewelry of Nepal; 1999; Hannelore Gabriel

[firstfullmoon]

aria aber, “my father drives me to düsseldorf airport” / hedgie choi, “salvage”

[existential-celestial]

Anna Kamienska, from “Industrious Amazement: A Notebook,” translated by Clare Cavanagh in Poetry (March 2011)

[smsomah]

Bilad Qahtan, Saudi Arabia. Scanned from the book Tableaux d'Arabie by Thierry Mauger. More on my frescoes tag.

Traditionally, women painted their homes to beautify the space and express identity, hospitality, and cultural pride. They used natural pigments (soot, limestone, plant dyes) mixed with water and applied them with simple tools like sticks, fingers, or handmade brushes. Over time, commercial paints expanded the color range.

[chantssecrets]

an Afghan man shows a bowl with chopped pieces of lapis lazuli