cynicism isn't wisdom

devzo, 25, lover of clingy-ness and custard cremes. enfp, melancholic, currently in bath. (bit of a hufflepuff)

[orchidboy]

I could be his saint sebastian

[thestanconfessions]

[c9x-deactivated20230223]

Elena Rotenberg

[lovelyporridge]

why don’t you read a poem about the sunrise written 5 centuries ago and contemplate the fact that we have been writing about the same sun for centuries upon centuries and then maybe you’ll calm down

[eclektic]

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in her studio, 1958

[stinkykatie]

[alienlifeform]

denormalize cars

[nobrashfestivity]

Yayoi Kusama, Self-Obliteration, 1967

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[achasma]

Detail from Allegory of Painting by François Boucher.

[grapevinefire]

“Capitalism is the celebration of a cult sans reve et sans merci [without dream or mercy]. There are no “weekdays.” There is no day that is not a feast day, in the terrible sense that all its sacred pomp is unfolded before us: each day commands the utter fealty of each worshiper. And third, the cult makes guilt pervasive. Capitalism is probably the first instance of a cult that creates guilt, not atonement.”

— Walter Benjamin, ‘Capitalism as Religion (1921)’ (via smallexit)

[wike-wabbits]

Vintage charms

[didoofcarthage]

La Pensée (Thought) by Aristide Maillol

French, conceived in 1902-1905 and cast about 1920

terracotta

private collection

[cardinalvalentino]

romanticize caramelize unionize

[rotgospels]

Anthony Purdy, The Bog Body as Mnemotope: Nationalist Archaeologies in Heaney and Tournier.

[historicaltimes]

Two girls more engrossed with the air vent grate than the modern art on the walls of the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963.

via reddit

[shesnake]

“I always dreamed of doing ‘serious’ theatre when I was younger… I just grew out of it. I grew up.”

Taika Waititi and Shari Sebbens on The Whole Table episode 1, January 20th 2021.

[mournfulroses]

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley, from Collected Poems; “The Return of the Exile,”