your bones of smoke

an existential crisis as performance art

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, I believe from a Hyakki Yagyo picture scroll

[softestaura]

Dilara Findikoglu “Saint Bias Cut Dress”

[metamorphesque]

Liu Xiaodong, The Lovers

[etherea1ity]

Monet's Garden, Giverny, France ( via )

[bloodsbane]

STRAIGHT. UP. sometimes the only way to do art is to not give a shit

[yibitos]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CETHHVkJASG/

[gnossienne]

x

[ceruleansoleil]

Source

[schwarz-wunderkammer]

In 1958, during a conference at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, Mark Rothko listed the seven necessary ingredients for “a recipe of a work of art”:

1. A clear awareness of death. All art is in relation with death

2. Sensuality, necessary to represent the world in a concrete way

3. Tension, that is to say the conflicts or desires that in art are dominated the very moment they are shown

4. Irony, a modern ingredient. A form of self deletion, and at the same time of self analysis, through which man can, at least for a moment, get away from his destiny

5. Wit, humour

6. Some grams of ephemeral and some grams of chance

7. A ten percent of hope… only if you need it; Greek didn’t have

[rbthemad]

i don’t mean to sound fake deep but the reason 2018 felt so long was because we’re being fed what’s trending at such a rapid rate that we literally can’t remember half of the shit that even happened anymore. “Black Panther came out in February!” Marvel releases so many movies a year that we completely forget about the last movie as soon as a new one comes out and it repeats in a vicious cycle. “Tide Pods/Ugandan Knuckles was in January!” The life span of memes have been rapidly declining for years and it’s gotten to the point where the average lifespan of a meme is about 2 weeks and then the next thing gets popular and then that lasts for 2 weeks and it just keeps going. We’re literally losing our sense of time because of our rapid consumption of media and pop culture.

[thenearsightedmonkey]

By Lynda Barry  May 2016

[kateordie]

Every time I see this I love it more

[galina]

Every library in london is dreamy, a series by me

[k-ayo]

여자 무지 울 베레모

18,000원

[puriusagi]

ELK PANCAKE CAFE | MATCHA | ストロベリーチーズケーキ

[scifiplanes]

alexandergronsky.com/

[itscolossal]

Air Bonsai: Levitating Magnetic Bonsai Trees by Hoshinchu

[watchoutforintellect]

“It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.”

— Louise Gluck - from Proofs and Theories