nimi pilin laso

[ko-elajase]

sina ken ala pali e pakala

[supplyside]

wrecked

[fragrantblossoms]

Eliot Porter. Fractured Obsidian, Landmannalauger, 1972.

[firagasoap]

Tree bark texture

[lovertm]

animal-shaped bells by Fatimahandicraft

[moishe-pipick]

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

[hyperions-fate]

If you reckon correctly, all the world is a shipwreck.

[aquatic-dusk]

the world is built on the corpses of hubris, but life has a way of inexorably encrusting everything with beauty

[ko-elajase]

my two favorite words in toki pona are ko and kon. partly because they both represent, changing, amorphous things. but also from a certain lens, one could define each word respectivly as clay and soul. given this, i find the phonetic similarities of ko and kon to be very compelling; the only letter that differentiates the two phonetically is a 'n' or in fancier words, an alveolar nasal consonant. what is a 'n'? well firstly it is a letter that represents a sound, but in a poetic sense its sort of a hum one makes with their mouth closed. sort of like the sound a bug makes when it is inside of a jar. and if for a moment we choose to define ko as a clay vessel and kon as an inbued essense, i find it compelling that what distinguishes the vessel from the soul is a sound that is made when a vibration echos inside of a closed hollow chamber

of course this is just one way of looking at it and the fact that ko and kon can mean many other things only multiplies the beauty of the language. i think that in this small view, there is something that is illumimated of toki pona as a whole. it is uniquely flexible and clay-like in structure. words morph to their environmental context with an ease and pliability that is harder to do in other languages and i find much joy in the multitudes of shapes a single toki pona word can take

[endilletante]

“Villages d’Arabie heureuse” de Pascal Maréchaux, Ed. Chêne/Hachette, 1979.

[mymotorcyclediaries]

Moving on & getting older..

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Wayne Miller, Blues at the Maxwell Street Flea Market. USA, Illinois Chicago, 1947.

[cma-islamic-art]

Animals, Precious Stones, Coins, and Musical Instruments (recto); Animals, Birds, and Plants (verso), 1341, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic Art

This is one of several pages that were removed from a unique manuscript of this otherwise unknown work, which bears a colophon stating that it was written by the author and finished “Ramadan, 741” (February 1341). Illustrations on both sides include various animals, trees, and objects such as weapons, musical instruments, and jewels. Size: Overall: 19.7 x 13.5 cm (7 ¾ x 5 5/16 in.) Medium: opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.385

[metmuseum]

Face Mask Ornament. 6th–7th century. Credit line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/315170

[arjuna-vallabha]

Rice sheaf paddle with kala face, Bali

[lesbian-archives]

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

[soweli-suli]

tomo tu