[creativespark]

Marina Bernardo

[starrover]

— Louise Glück, from “Otis,” Meadowlands (1996)

[seaoflove]

a long time ago i learned that a big part of your life needs to be undocumented and just simply enjoyed in the present. you don’t need to post a picture of the book your reading for it to be good. you don’t need to have a pic of you posing before the sea as proof that u had a good trip. there’s a very fine line between manufacturing moments for future nostalgia and honoring happy experiences by commemorating them into art. and it’s all about intention: do i want to take a picture because it would look good on ig or do i want to take a picture because i do not want to forget how insanely happy i am right now? or, preferably, do i even need to take a picture at all?

[catscenter]

[huariqueje]

The Door Ajar   -   Serge de Vries

Dutch,b.1968-

Oil on panel , 19 x 16 in.

[nerteragranadensis]

[image description: oil painting of a white wooden door, standing slightly open. The door has a metal handle. A sliver of warm orange and yellow light is visible through the gap. end id.]

[ledzepplin]

some highlights of the @/vanity_of_maine instagram page

[metamorphesque]

Fyodor Dostoevsky / At Eternity’s Gate / Walt Whitman

[seaoflove]

some of my favourite vídeo essays about art history:

whose migrant mother was this? the story of the native american woman who became the face of the 1930s depression (and got almost nothing for it)

bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political how even a simple choice between what font to use can be a political act

edvard munch: what a cigarette means munch + tobacco = art? (yes we’re still on the topic of art as a political weapon)

art that was never finished how great masters sometimes even didn’t finish stuff. also! the history behind the colour aquamarine

fka twigs on mary magdalene (if you like asmr you’re gonna love this)

having a coke with frank ohara (technically not art history but this video is too good for me not to mention)

video postcard: woman at her toilette a quick dive into my favourite painting of woman impressionist berthe morrisot

this documentary about georgia o´keeffe (that ive seen about 10 times)

david hockney on vincent van gogh on love of nature, beauty, attention, and the art of looking (essentially a mary oliver poem in interview format!!!!)

[phocids]

I highly highly recommend whose afraid of modern art: vandalism, video games and fascism by Jacob Geller as well

[notchainedtotrauma]

“Self-love is not necessarily restricted to pleasure; it requires “ethical management of the self,” pushing the self to be configured in new ways that might be challenging and difficult.”

— from Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance by Amber Jamilla Musser

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

Castle Backpack from Undercover - Spring 2016

[weltenwellen]

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

[themakeupbrush]

Rodarte S/S 2019

This looks like a Degas painting or something

[ryebreadgf]

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[cactuslands]

Giulia Bianchi

[girlcaligula]

‘ti voglio bene’ has a softness to it that ‘i love you’ doesn’t have change my mind

[karina-padilla]

I have a bad habit of fantasizing at any and every possible moment I’ll start fantasizing mid conversation or while I’m reading a book or watching a movie I just shut down completely and fantasize for as long as I can in order to keep myself excited

[veinings]