[velvetcloak]

simone rocha | spring 2019

[bobbygio]

Luis Caballero

[little-mountain]

SELF PORTRAIT AS METHODS OF SURVIVAL

by Topaz Winters

I never pick the same song twice at karaoke I never take off my rain boots without thanking them first I don’t tell people I love them unless I plan on not seeing them again Once I chose my name & I’ve been running ever since Once I begged the door to open & the door made no answer So now I don’t bet more than what’s in my pocket I take pride in consistently beating every man in my life at poker I buy plants I know I won’t keep alive I refuse to look my pharmacist in the eye Once I was born with my fists in the air & I’ve been apologising ever since So now I don’t ask for favours I can’t repay I don’t visit my body without spending the next day in recovery I never forget my lip balm at home I own a dozen mouse traps just in case Once I wanted better & everything went downhill from there Once I believed in angels & lost a good penny in the crevice of that belief Once I forgave the war but not my father & Yes I have wanted something from the beginning of everything but it was only when I opened my mouth to ask for it that I realised it wasn’t touch

[nature-hiking]

Misty mountains 40/? - Alpine Haute Route, July 2021

photo by: nature-hiking

[darksilenceinsuburbiareloaded]

Rob Strati | The Fall from Fragmented series, 2022 | broken china, ink on paper

@robstrati

[themakeupbrush]

Stella Lunardy

[beguines]

Anya Krugovoy Silver, from "Skirts and Dresses", I Watched You Disappear

[dappermouth]

Lonely spring scenery in Yellowstone Nat’l Park.

[showings]

She had worked like a great artist; for a time—indeed, for years—she had been meaningless, but at the end there was presented to the girl the complete picture of a cheerless, loveless world in which the young rush to destruction until they learn better—a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good, if we may judge those who have used them the most.

E.M. Forster | A Room With a View (via showings)

[cyberglittter]

pink pearl costume & heels by joyce spakman

[le-bronzage-est-delicieux]

Christo and Jeanne Claude, ‘Wrapped Coast’ Australia, 1969

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“When you nurture the ability to witness your life in the third person, in extremis, or through prayer or meditation, there is an unavoidable shift in consciousness as you realize that who you are is not simply how you feel—but a presence beyond desire of any sort. Intense emotions that have held us prisoner all our lives suddenly lose power, are uncloaked as tricks of memory, exposed as tireless, groping sensations whose function is to keep us distracted by the body’s appetites until the body is no more.”

— Simon Van Booy, from The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)

[eirene]

A woman wearing a red dress lying on a bench surrounded by trees.

Photographer: John Rawlings

Vogue, January 1st, 1948

[yan-wo]

Ferdinand Burgdorff (American, 1881-1975), The California coast, 1929. Oil on masonite, 14 x 14 in.

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Gemstone clutches at The Blonds fw23

[sssabi]

Music Shell designed by Isamu Noguchi, Opened in 1988, Sapporo, Japan

[showings]

some JSTOR keywords of Anne Carson articles