the walker + the maze

kelly nayaase-naxhiñaa' krugman savvy contemporary and independent berlin based, gringa oaxaqueña curator and cultural worker

[federer7]

'Mujer con jícara en la cabeza', 1929, Juchitán (Oaxaca), México

Foto: Tina Modotti

[thichnhathanhgems]

[sol-psych]

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

[nemfrog]

"Spiral nebulae. From drawings by Lord Rosse." A short history of astronomy. 1898.

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[shisasan]

May 29, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[89rooms]

I remember how seeing the shape of your mouth that first time, I kept staring until my blood turned to rain. Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.

T.S Eliot - 'Slow Dance'

[jogoraz]

[petaltexturedskies]

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (originally published in 1977)

[bookofkhidr]

Francisco Vázquez,  Zorida shooting during First Women’s Video Workshop, Ejido Morelia, 1998

[ymutate]

Alma Woodsey Thomas,

“Orion” (1973)

acrylic on canvas, 60 x 54 inches

courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. © Alma Woodsey Thomas, photo by Lee Stalsworth

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Dot Art by DOROTHY ROBINSON NAPANGARDI

[arte-artem-artibus]

Alexander Calder - Sunburst, 1974, colored lithograph, 19 1/8 x 25 1/4 in

[improvisedliturgy]

Emotions tell us a lot about time; emotions are the very ‘flesh’ of time. They show us the time it takes to move, or to move on, is a time that exceeds the time of an individual life. Through emotions, the past persists on the surface of bodies. Emotions show us how histories stay alive, even when they are not consciously remembered; how histories of colonialism, slavery, and violence shape lives and worlds in the present. The time of emotion is not always about the past, and how it sticks. Emotions also open up futures, in the ways they involve different orientations to others. It takes time to know what we can do with emotion.

Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

[madaeli26]

Chapala Dmitry

[smsomah]

Chengdu, China, 1959. Wolfgang Schröter

[cosmicanger]

“Feline heads“ Peru, Mochica culture 1st to 8th centuries AD

[askebos]

“Stop thinking about saving your fragile face. Tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp. We will not blame you if your words go down in flames and nothing is left but the raw-scald. We will not blame you if, with the reticence of a surgeon’s hands, your words suture only the red places where blood might flow. We will not blame you because we know you can never do it properly: once and for all. Passion is never enough. Talent is never enough. Skill is never enough. But try. For our sake and yours. So. Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul. You, so blessed with occasional blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

— Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

[nemfrog]

Mahakala, wrathful protector. (Asian) Theatricals. 1923.

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