beyond the physical

In between magma, ether and stardust

[lawsoffate]

Tears of frankincense from the Boswellia Sacra tree ~ photography by Cedric Pollet.

[unsubconscious]

Chris Long Searching For Firewood II Oil on cradled wood panel

[girlfictions]

Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

[389]

An Allegory of Power by Georg Janny  (1864-1935)  

[talonabraxas]

Annular Eclipse 2023. Taken south of Farmington, New Mexico.

[lionfloss]

by danielmercadante

[iheartliquor]

[mmetaphysique]

My body loves where it’s at at any given moment, and when it doesn’t, I trust it

[mmetaphysique]

[mmetaphysique]

Were it not for the small, the big could not be

the whole tree grows out of the small seed

the mountain from the tiny rock

the pebble grain of sand

the human from the atom

from the egg

and from a hand reaching for another

love bursting from the smallest of her

. . .

look not at only the big things

but remember the small

honor the big things

but honor it all

[crossconnectmag]

Art in Motion  -  Charlie Ford

As a performance artist, Charlie Ford has presented drawing installations throughout London, as well as Sweden, Australia and the Czech Republic. He has just finished up a week long exhibition at Arts Depot in London, an interactive drawing installation in which he completed seven drawings throughout the week opening the space up to observers to come and draw in the gallery. Keep up with his work here.

Using movement improvisation, I have also begun to question how motion can be prepared or devised and transcend into the creation of a drawing.

I have presented open installations and exhibitions, which invite observers to come and see my work, but simultaneously see me working; my process is something I want to share. I draw physically, and explore what this means to me.

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[mayagoo]

Ana Mendieta–“Earth-Body” Works

1. Anima, Silueta de Cohetes, 1976

2. Flowers on Body, 1974

3. Untitled (Silueta Series), 1973

[worldssmallesttrampoline]

[performanceartempire-blog]

George Ferrandi it felt like i knew you…, 2012 - ongoing I ride the NYC subway trains, usually in the evening when the seats are full. I focus on the shape of the space between the person sitting next to me and myself. I attempt to mentally and emotionally re-sculpt that space. In my mind, I reshape it- from the stiff and guarded space between strangers to the soft and yielding space between friends. I direct all my energy to this space between us. When the space palpably changes, and I completely feel like the stranger sitting next to me is my friend, I rest my head on that person’s shoulder…

[pureblindingcolour]

spectral sunset 

by pureblindingcolour

[sir-orfeo]

I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves  (via soracities)

[dirigma]

Did you cut your hands on me / Are my edges sharp?

Sufjan Stevens, from “Enchanting Ghost" (via lyncoh)

[anancientheart]

She was transparent, heartbreaking. I would be afraid to be so vulnerable. I’d spent the last three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so I wouldn’t drip with blood every time I brushed up against something. She was naked, she peeled herself daily.

Janet Fitch, excerpt from White Oleander (via wethinkwedream)