bite of brightness

will pay for patterns

[garadinervi]

From: Karel Martens / Wallpapers, Enter Enter – A Space for Books, Amsterdam, August 31 – September 20, 2025 [Art: © Karel Martens]

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Karel Martens – Unbound at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

↗ Martens and Martens

[04k96]

[girljpg]

me impatiently to the little french cat boiling me in a stew: chat am I cooked

[dappledwithshadow]

Cats Playing Pierre Bonnard - Date unknown Private collection Drawing - pastel

[fishmonkeycow]

Dark days

[autoneurotic]

wanted all my horses in one basket, as it were

[jacobwren]

“Agency can be strange, twisted, caught up in things, passive, or exhausted. Not the way we like to think about it. Not usually a simple projection toward a future. It’s what we mean by “having a life” (as in “get a life”). But it’s caught up in things. Circuits, bodies, moves, connections. It takes unpredictable and counterintuitive forms. It’s lived through a series of dilemmas: that action is always a reaction; that the potential to act always includes the potential to be acted on, or to submit; that the move to gather a self to act is also a move to lose the self; that one choice precludes others; that actions can have unintended and disastrous consequences; and that all agency is frustrated and unstable and attracted to the potential in things. It’s not really about willpower but rather something much more complicated and much more rooted in things.”

— Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects

[lost-cinema]

“A Creek Runs Through This Home” dir: Serge Arlington, 1978

[feral-ballad]

Vicente Aleixandre, ed. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “The Explosion”

[Text ID: “I devoted myself to one endless afternoon. / I’ve loved you every moment of that afternoon.”]

[carnetimaginaire]

Jean-Michel Folon: The Return of the Two Snails [1979]

[neshamama]

paulassie pootoogook (1927-2006), telluliyuk sea goddess, 1960, stonecut

[deadeyesopened]

[obviouswreck]

Akira Nagasawa  長沢明    - Reborn

[polkadotmotmot]

Sophie Vallance Cantor - The Manifesto of Naina, 2020

[desimonewayland]

Mitsuaki Sora (Japanese, 1933- )

Untitled 1970

Color woodcut

The Cleveland Museum of Art

[3frogs]

two fleur de lion variants!

[taishou-kun]

Yamazaki Shishi work

YANOYA project of Akiko Yano and Tokyo University of the Arts「やの屋」矢野顕子×東京芸術大学 - 2012

Video here :

http://vimeo.com/29997265#at=0