Just a scribbla

not really an artist, not really a writer, but love scribbling away at both

[makovietz]

Oystercatcher

Lithography

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Ana Mendieta. Bird Run, 1974. The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection.

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Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird. Original cover design by Shirley Smith.

First published 66 years ago this week.

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“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

Terry Pratchett

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Leonora Carrington. Villa Pilar, 1940. Painted at the time Leonora was having shock therapy at a Spanish psychiatric hospital after escaping occupied France.

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Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. The light of the soul. 1930.

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Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable,

And lightness has a call that's hard to hear.

I wrap my fear around me like a blanket.

Indigo Girls. Closer to fine.

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Art is not for fixing yourself.

It is for showing others that you are broken so that they might feel less alone.

exurb1a, Losing you.

https://youtu.be/UB0bI5e1hDo?si=h5uDuAZIUMrRIsI7

[titsay]

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Find me in the thick of it.

In the snow-balling consequences of breathing.

Trent Dalton, Gravity let me go.

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I close my eyes

yet nothing whatever

floats up in my mind

out of sheer loneliness

I reopen them

Translated Tanka poem by Takuboku Ishikawa.

[venustapolis]

Untitled Drawing (Jean Delville, 1888)

[loveridden1999]

to the young who want to die by gwendolyn brooks

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Taína H. Cruz. I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back, 2025

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Species: Oophaga granulifera. Photo: French biologist twins, Maceo and Andrea.

https://www.instagram.com/twins_wild_lens

[ildubbioelaragione]

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Table leg from some time in the 18th century, Burgundy, France.

I don't think I have ever seen anything that is so fascinating, strange, and erotic, all at once.