RUNNING LIKE WATER

A collection of words and images that made me feel something.

[nobrashfestivity]

Paul Klee Harmonized Region 1938 Oil on burlap on cardboard 38.7 × 47 cm (15 1/4 × 18 1/2 in.) © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

[nobrashfestivity]

Clarence Hudson White The Kiss 1904 Platinum print on paper

[kindafondawanda]

Xi Pan

[beingharsh]

It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one's sanity becomes an object of speculation among one's acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

"On Self-Respect", Joan Didion

[nobrashfestivity]

Max Ernst, Birth of Venus, 1965, Oil on panel

[nobrashfestivity]

[caliro]

…….thinking about this………..always thinking about this…..

[joeinct]

Duke Ellington’s Shoes, Paris, Photo by Leonard Herman, 1958

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

[the-evil-clergyman]

Study for Day and The Dawnstar by Herbert James Draper (20th Century)

[christianrichardrice]

[webrelic]

Myriam Eykens (2015)

[elizabethanism]

“Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. […] The forces of chaos are kept outside as much as possible.”

A Thousand Plateaus, on the territorial role of the refrain.

Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze

[whisperthatruns]

tr. Brian Massumi

[heavensghost]

love finds you in the middle of a field

[eveninginparis]

like a daughter to me

[leonardcohenofficial]

“The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It’s useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.”

— Leonard Cohen in a 1985 interview

[ksheaven]

“Untitled” (Key West), Félix González-Torres, 1992