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Been thinking about this quote a lot lately.

The first time I felt anything that I could describe as “God’s Presence” or transcendental, was in front of Rothko’s “White Center” painting. During the time that I was intern at the Registrar department @lacma, My favorite Rothko and I had a very deep relationship. Every lunch I hurried to eat so I could go and sit in front of it and get lost inside of it. All of my bathroom breaks took about 25 minutes because I would walk to the furthest bathroom located next to the gallery that had my Rothko. The feeling is indescribable and one that I still feel often in the presence of certain work.

Lately, plants have been taking over every aspect of my being. As spiritual guidance, scientific curiosity, visual inspiration.

Teachhhh meeeeee. Showwwww meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I’ve been planning my compost for a few months now and getting ready to start it up. So looking forward to the mind blowing results and many days of yelling at my husband to “COME LOOK!!” at the compost bin to see “trash” turn to “soil”. It’ll give me a high on life that I’ll ride all summer <3

#plantlife #bettemidlerquote #compost #rothko #whitecenter #lacma

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Türkan Şoray ~ Aşk Mabudesi, 1969

festivemomentspow

The Spice Girls, 1996

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“Full engagement in the movement called democracy requires no less of us than full engagement in the living of our own lives.”

Found this in my email this morning and thought it was a perfect compliment to the Writing Workshop with Leslie Schwartz that is happening today at #LAMAG. Come explore your creative writing on issues pertaining to democracy.

#lamagallery #selection16 #democrazy #creativityanddemocracy #healthroughcreativity #leslieschwartz #lamagbarnsdall

quotemadness

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso (via loveage-moondream)

INGE MORATH

Austrian-born American photographer, Inge Morath.

Badass babe with a beautiful mind and an eye for the beautiful. Morath was, not only, as sharp as they come ( fluent in French, German, Romanian, English, Spanish, Russian & Chinese), she was fearless:

“In 1959, while photographing the making of The Unforgiven, starring Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, and Audie Murphy, Morath accompanied Huston and his friends duck hunting on a mountain lake outside Durango, Mexico. Photographing the excursion, Morath saw through her telephoto lens that Murphy and his companion had capsized their boat 350 feet from shore. She could see that Murphy, stunned, was nearly drowning. A skilled swimmer, Morath stripped to her underwear and hauled the two men ashore by her bra strap while the hunt continued uninterrupted.[15] “

but most importantly, undeniably talented.

“Mask Series”

She met the artist Saul Steinberg in 1958. When she went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask which he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg's masks.

“First Color”

I was reintroduced and -became obsessed shortly after, with Inge through her color photographs of Mexico and Spain. Not only am I fan of color, her female subjects are photographed with so much intimacy that I can’t help but feel some type of way.