Surface Texture

Mitch / 26 / NZ

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“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”

— James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

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Destiny and Chichi behind the scenes of our Flava video

Photo by Milah Libin

[stylish-homes]

Case Study House No. 22, designed by architect Pierre Koenig, photo by Julius Shulman

via reddit

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You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Carl Jung (via quotemadness)

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Jenny Holzer, National Gallery, Berlin

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You should know that when a husband or a wife fight, it may seem to be about money or sex or power. But what they're really yelling at each other about is loneliness. What they're really saying is, "You're not enough people."

Kurt Vonnegut

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Lisa Larsen

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Hope+Glory in i-D issue 160 ‘ESCAPE’ January 1997

photo by Scott Lyon + Barnaby Caldbeck

[rickstevensart]

“A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction… and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.” -Wayne Thiebaud

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David Alan Harvey, Early Gray the cat perched atop an old pickup truck surveying the scene. Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA. 2017.

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When one uses the words beauty of holiness, one can call this kind of expressing the holy: “beauty of emptiness.” This emptiness is not an emptiness by privation, but it is an emptiness by inspiration. It’s not an emptiness where we feel empty, but it is an emptiness where we feel that the empty space is filled with the presence of that which cannot be expressed in any finite form.

Paul Tillich, “Honesty and Consecration in Art and Architecture,” 1987

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The Mill House / Wingårdh Arkitektkontor

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Emma Fits, Summer Show, 2019

“These new works enter into an imaginative dialogue between the writing of Anni Albers, the interior design of Eileen Gray and the portrait painting of Romaine Brooks.” -Melanie Roger Gallery

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The realm of representations regulates, if not haunts, the perception of the world by encapsulating the subject within the confines of a pre-established set of representations, thus deepening one’s fundamental segregation from the world.

Jin Baek, Nothingness: Tadao Ando’s Christian Sacred Space 

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Martin Kippenberger - The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s “Amerika,” 1994/1999

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That’s how it goes. Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

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Priya Ramrakha

“I think of Henry James’s advice: “Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.” It was as though this admonition was always running through Priya’s mind. He didn’t waste a minute of his life. He recorded every major event he witnessed. He was one of the bravest men I have ever known.” -Paul Theroux