Carmen

tender with ache

[tender--ache]

Memory, souvenir (August 2023)

[milksockets]

susanna lewis in art to wear - julie schafler dale (1986)

[tender--ache]

"My love,

It is now the loneliest of seasons. It is also when I'm the angriest.

It's summer and I'm brewing with rage and I can't forgive myself.

I am in need of the comfort and tenderness nobody has given me before. "

-C.

(From the postcard series "To You, Somewhere")

[tender--ache]

You cannot enjoy life unless you're living it. You cannot enjoy life unless you're living it!!!

[flowerytale]

Leonora Carrington, from The Hearing Trumpet

[tender--ache]

John Berger, from And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos (1984)

I am begging you, please do yourself a favour and read this book. Berger's writing is like a peaceful, quiet morning sitting in the porch savouring the gentle breeze with a warm cup of coffee and nothing to do for the rest of the day. It puts my heart at ease.

This particular fragment I find myself going back to often, I even cry a little at how tender this is.

[tender--ache]

some recent photos

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

not waiting for love bc love finds me in all kinds of ways every day

[tender--ache]

Aren't you tired?

(August 1, 2023)Hello friends,Some time has passed since I wrote and recorded this audio, so here’s a recap of how things have unfolded. I f

Uploaded just a few days ago a short video <33

[weusedtobegiants]

I want to go back to the beginning. We all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. But I’m wrong.

Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved

[redlipstickresurrected]

Takuya Mitani aka 三谷拓也 aka Mitani Takuya (Japanese, b. 1985, Tohaku-gun, Tottori Prefecture, Japan, based Nerima, Tokyo, Japan) - Paintings: Watercolor, Pencil, Rock Paint on Japanese Paper

[tender--ache]

"Your heart is beating, isn't it? you're not in chains are you?"

-Mary Oliver, from "Moments"

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Home, Warsan Shire//Doll’s House of Petronella Oortman, Jacob Appel

[tender--ache]

little practice sketch

[catswilleatyou]

wings

[art-creature]

acrylic & pen on paper

[mentaltimetraveller]

Felix Gonzalez-Torres  “Untitled” (For White Columns)

[tender--ache]

No you don't understand. Let me look up at the sky and allow the gentle breeze to grace my skin and I'm a new person, the world is beautiful and life is long.