Flesh of the Fig

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William Heick. Dog & Cat. Mendocino, California, 1947.

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Portrait of Olive Ann Alcorn (a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies), by Albert Witzel, 1925.

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Jackson Pollock, NUMBER 4, 1951

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Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

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And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight - isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you're seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there's a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them. And who knows what might happen to you then?

— Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone: Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 15, 2007)

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Last Days of May by Nell Brinkley, 1920

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Man and Woman

Edvard Munch

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Ramona Zordini

The Unknown, 2025

Cyanotype on paper, 8 toning on green tea, 1 layer multitoning Cyanotype.

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