[psikonauti]

Mark Laver (Canadian, b. 1970)

Is it strange I should change, I don’t know, why don’t you ask her?, 2021

Oil on wood panel

[psikonauti]

Claudia Keep (American,b.1993)

Morning Swim, 2022

Oil on masonite panel

[ribombeee]

bruh

[p9sh-blog]

[soracities]

Inger Christensen, Alphabet

[anotherdiamonday]

Hatsuyama Shigeru, Colts, 1948

[literarymiscellany]

“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann, from Death in Venice, trans. Henry Heim (HarperPerennial, 2005, first published in 1912)

[cithaerons]

Catherine of Siena, The Prayers of Catherine of Siena: Prayer 3 (October, 1376) (trans. Noffke)

[thunderstruck9]

Gustaf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Winter Landscape, 1925. Oil on canvas, 94 x 103 cm.

[feuillesmortes]

Mark Doty in A Display of Mackerel eulogising beautiful luminous fish but actually discussing the problem of individuality and what it means to be one among many:

Suppose we could iridesce, / like these, and lose ourselves / entirely in the universe / of shimmer—would you want / to be yourself only, / unduplicatable, doomed / to be lost?

all, all for all, / the rainbowed school / and its acres of brilliant classrooms, / in which no verb is singular, / or every one is.

[showings]

“Call it a wild perversity or a wild optimism, but they were right, our ancestors, to celebrate what they feared. What I fear I avoid. What I fear I pretend does not exist. What I fear is quietly killing me. Would there be a festival for my fears, a ritual burning of what is coward in me, what is lost in me. Let the light in before it is too late.”

— Jeanette Winterson, “The Green Man” | The World and Other Places: Stories

[molabuddy]

horrors beyond my comprehension more like horrors beyond my articulation. i know exactly what it is but id never be able to explain it to anyone

[smartlovingunitedtough]

Wood block color prints by gustave baumann

[nobrashfestivity]

Hashimoto Okiie 橋本興家 Irises and Young Woman 菖蒲と少女 1952

[zonnesproetje]

Keeping Things Whole

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

Mark Strand

[aridante]

outbound, hieu minh nguyen // angels in america, tony kushner.

[urgetocreate]

Andrew Wyeth, The Carry, 2003, Tempera on panel

[raeiyyn]

Isn’t all that rage so ugly? And isn’t it mine, still? Good God, isn’t it mine?

—Ashe Vernon, Buried, Not a Girl