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sharing & weaving images & words found & combined by estella mare

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mother's tongue

ruth asawa

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Gib mir den Mantel, Martin,/ aber geh erst vom Sattel/ und laß dein Schwert, wo es ist,/ gib mir den ganzen.

Nachruf, Ilse Aichinger

Give me the coat, Martin,/ but first, get off the saddle/ and leave your sword where it is/ give me the whole coat.

Obituary, Ilse Aichinger

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farewell

Deborah Turbeville on the island of Hvar, Croatia,1986

from 'Newport Remembered' by Deborah Turbeville

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Ingeborg Bachmann in her kitchen, Rome, 1968.

"That’s it,   

that’s joy, it’s always

a recognition, the known   

appearing fully itself, and   

more itself than one knew."

(from 'Matins' by Denise Levertov)

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Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, the Roma of Sintesti.

"Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins./Don't even sew on a button./Let the wind have its way, then the earth"

(Louise Erdrich)

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tutti i nostri ieri*

maria lai

*natalia ginzburg

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  elliott erwitt, mother and child

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somewhere i have never travelled*

kiki smith and sisters

*e.e. cummings

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an in-between time*

yayoi kusama, flower overcoat.

*from 'it was beginning winter' by theodore roethke.

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au·tum·nal /ôˈtəmnəl/

lina scheynius

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her kind*

  vali myers, ed van der elsken

man ray, bronislava nijinska

melissa shook, krissy

*'her kind' is a poem by anne sexton

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don't look for mysteries; I bring you pure joy.*

brancusi, tzara, mina loy, jane heap & margaret anderson in brancusi's studio.

*brancusi

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the thought fox

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will"in summer, the song sings itself." william carlos williams

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I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day;

{Tennyson}

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'i like a little disorder in my life ....' 

irene silvagni by peter lindbergh

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autrement qu'être*

Francesco Clemente & Alighiero Boetti, Kabul 1974.

* Emanuel Lévinas