Mar 12, 2022
Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame that grows up like thorns around it.
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Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame that grows up like thorns around it.
10/24 shots from David Wojnarowicz’s Arthur Rimbaud in New York, discussed in the chapter In Loving Him by Olivia Laing in The Lonely City
Some books I’ve read this year. 📚
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor by Dave Haslam
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
“There are so many things that art can’t do. It can’t bring the dead back to life, it can’t mend arguments between friends, or cure AIDS, or halt the pace of climate change. All the same, it does have some extraordinary functions, some odd negotiating ability between people, including people who never meet and yet who infiltrate and enrich each other’s lives. It does have a capacity to create intimacy; it does have a way of healing wounds, and better yet of making it apparent that not all wounds need healing and not all scars are ugly.“ — “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone” by Olivia Laing ... #thelonelycity #olivialaing #justread #chicagopubliclibrary #book https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo7LIS_BXka/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=crbzjdeqcbbh
The loneliness of difference, the loneliness of undesirability, the loneliness of not being admitted into the magic circles of connection and acceptance – the social and professional groupings, the embracing arms... #olivialaing #thelonelycity #polaroid #self #portrait #doubleexposure #bipolaroid #staybrokeshootfilm #image #impossiblefilm #impossibleproject #analogue #female #filmphotography #analog #love
June's book club pick is Olivia Laing's THE LONELY CITY! Join us on Tuesday, July 11th at 6:30PM when we'll discuss this illuminating book on urban isolation and its complicated relationship to art and the Internet. 🌃 #litsyndicate #olivialaing #thelonelycity (at Unabridged Bookstore)
morning read post garden watering #olivialaing (at Marblehead, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRJ3juuvh6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired.