Moth&Dust

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." — Samuel Beckett

[mothanddust]

Album artwork for Mystic Truth by Bad Suns /2019

[jozefondrik]

Regular Lines TF –> https://www.regularlines.com/

[feelsgoood]

[mothanddust]

A Dark Room by Doublespeak Games

Designed by Michael Townsend

[draywp]

Coming Storm | Albuquerque, NM | 2026

[searchsystem]

Unstated / Veragouth e Xilema / Printed Matter / 2025

[trailofleaves]

"To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown." — Robert Bly

[artdepo]

the awesome art of Mike Giant

[mothanddust]

In Antipolo, You Can Find a Museum

By Abner Dormiendo Translated By Ethan Chua Translated from the Filipino

I was dragged to by my feet, memories misled me with their leavings, an engkanto made my native city strange. Meaning, Samantha, I’ve been brought here again, facing a painting I can’t comprehend: is its subject love or disaster? In times like these when the wind is muggy and the cars parked by city hall rumble their boredom,  it’s as if everything’s the same. Plus, I don’t have the strength or the time to divine distinctions, make out each shape and think, yes, this means something to me. Like when I looked at the ceiling in the room of our last meeting and whispered to myself, this is it. This is the art of all parting— your shadow squeezing into your jeans, the creak of a door I wished wouldn’t close. Each line and curve of recollection’s architecture was screaming your name. Your face a painting and I the wall on which, by a hook, it hung.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MonochromeMonday:

“Common Porcupine = Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata)

Plate 122 by Charles Heath in George Shaw’s _General zoology, or Systematic natural history_ Vol II Pt 1 (London, 1801)

Via BHL

[chantssecrets]

Tullio Pericoli, Samuel Beckett, 1986, ink and watercolor on paper, 56x38 cm.

[charnel-grounds]

Toni Catany (1942–2014), “Vanitas Box”

pigment ink print, 2008 — source

[weepingwidar]

Casey Weldon (US-American, 1979) - Curtains (2026)

[orchidblack]

Joseba Alexander.

[apoemaday]

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

by Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Joanna Macy

Quiet friend who has come so far,

feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

[the-gershomite]

Skeleton Warrior by Gerald Brom

[mothanddust]