if they catch you in the darga,

arga warga [ she/her | 30s | interdisciplinary artist, writer, translator, dancer ]

[nobrashfestivity]

Nelly Sachs

[miamaimania]

Untitled (sandal-cat) ✦ Esther Calvo — carved hybrid of high heel and feline

[drops-of-universe]

as a woman you're always too young or too old for things because the perfect age is when you're a man

[neoyorzapoteca]

Arghavan Khosravi, The Drop, 2026. Photo by JSP Art Photography. Courtesy of Uffner & Liu.

[improvisedliturgy]

When we discussed his poetry, Moten, citing Amiri Baraka, made a distinction between voice and sound. “I always thought that ‘the voice’ was meant to indicate a kind of genuine, authentic, absolute individuation, which struck me as (a) undesirable and (b) impossible,” he said. “Whereas a ‘sound’ was really within the midst of this intense engagement with everything: with all the noise that you’ve ever heard, you struggle somehow to make a difference, so to speak, within that noise. And that difference isn’t necessarily about you as an individual, it’s much more simply about trying to augment and to differentiate what’s around you. And that’s what a sound is for me.”

David S. Wallace, "Fred Moten's Radical Critique of the Present"

[neoyorzapoteca]

Lee Bontecou in her Wooster Street Studio, 1963. Photo Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. Art © Lee Bontecou. (via ArtRKL)

[cloudswamp]

the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins

[neoyorzapoteca]

Mina Abouzahra, Brick Wall tapestry (One and a half Women), 2026 - Rademakers Gallery

[jacobwren]

“A significant problem in interpreting modern art is that artistic attempts to express emotional affect in Expressionism, Cobra, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-Expressionism – not to mention children’s art, outsider art, popular or folk art, and other forms closely associated with “direct” or “authentic” expression – often appear repetitive, if not outright poor, easy, cheap, crazy, unresolved, or otherwise unacceptable. The attempt to express emotions directly leads artist to make work quickly, and therefore to continually risk sloppiness and failure. Yet the very emphasis on authenticity of intent over finished product radically destabilizes aesthetic value judgements, leading to repeated crises about how to differentiate “good” from “bad” painting. The problem of how to judge personal expression raises the question of how artistic professionals decide what to include – what to deem worthy of our attention – in the category of art.” ― Karen Kurczynski, The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe: Reanimating Art

[neoyorzapoteca]

Ghada Amer, My Nympheas #2, 2018 (via the thread)

[darling-little-quotes]

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

— Alice Walker, The Color Purple

[neoyorzapoteca]

Tissu Simultané no. 46 Fabric designed by Sonia Delaunay, 1924, printed on silk plain weave (via the thread)

[dk-thrive]

“Light gives me a feeling of spiritual atmosphere. Light is with you –you do not have to feel you are alone.”

— Sven Nykvist, in the documentary "Light Keeps Me Company" (Ljuset håller mig sällskap), directed by Carl-Gustaf Nykvist, Sandrews, 2000; translated from Swedish in the English subtitles.

[neoyorzapoteca]

Amina Agueznay, detail of Asǝṭṭa, 2026. ©️ Ayoub El Bardii. Courtesy Moroccan Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication.

[exhaled-spirals]

“Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It’s hard to create a footpath on your own […]. Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people. Paths are consensual, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over. Paths need walking. In 19th century Suffolk small sickles called ‘hooks’ were hung on stiles and posts at the start of certain well-used paths: those running between villages, for example. A walker would pick up a hook and use it to lop off branches that were starting to impede passage. The hook would then be left at the other end of the path, for a walker coming in the opposite direction. In this manner the path was collectively maintained for general use.”

— Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (via exhaled-spirals)

[neoyorzapoteca]

Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕Mountain Quakes and Crumbles in Green and Blue (Danda Mountain, Hualien), 2026 Albion Jeune

[ssegundosombra]

"Is psychoanalysis a translation system? From the unconscious to the impossible. When we interact, do we translate? Can we change the way we translate? Can we be free of translation? Does direct interaction exist?"

Cecilia Biagini, Double Translation