Regina

Not dead, still Alive

[neoyorzapoteca]

In 1994, my friend, the writer Chloe Aridjis, took a photograph of Carrington, aged seventy-seven, steely and alert, at her home in Mexico City. She’s standing next to one of her sculptures, which, Chloe explains, Leonora called ING (c.1994) ‘as in cook-ing, paint-ing, see-ing: a sort of Golem figure, it represented the verb incarnate. In her world, everything might possess a soul; even grammar becomes an entity.’ Chloe remembered that, as they sat having tea, the pots and pans hanging behind Leonora cast shadows that evoked ‘claws, shovels, tridents, horned creatures’. They were, she felt, ‘imbued with a Fantasia sorcerer’s potential’ and she ‘half expected them to come alive and start marching around’. ‘I’ve always had access to other worlds,’ Carrington said. ‘We all do because we dream.’

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The Other Side (Jennifer Higgie)

[e14jxx]

— Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

[moffpup]

ultimate panel of all time. preach. fucking absolute truth. yes

[etchingwithaquatint]

Enrique Martinez Celaya, Constellation (Woodrooms) (2002)

[vivalasigh]

lol so far my attempts to online date in the bay have led to:

- my date canceling 2 hours before

- a guy unmatching me even though we had made a plan to meet that he agreed to 🙃

Welp!

[bongjoonhoe]

La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

[asystolle]

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

BEFORE SUNSET (2004) dir. Richard Linklater

[reverie-quotes]

A woman must stay alone for a long while until the hate men have for women has left her, and even longer until the jealousy women have for other women has left her, and longer still until the anger her children have for her has left her—until she is no longer a woman altered by the resentment of men, women, and children, no longer what others have forced her to be, but empty as a skull or a shell, filled only by whatever she pleases, forest air perhaps.

— Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

[important-cat-pics]

[jinxproof]

© Jenny Holzer | NYC | 1993

[hoodlumwitchh]

This is to inform you that I didn’t die young.

Jim Harrison, Barking

[firstfullmoon]

It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

— Mary Oliver, “Praying”

[neoyorzapoteca]

Existence is crushingly hard. It’s very tempting to step off its road, to avoid living one’s life. One has to work hard to make sure to go through existence, not around it. It’s a terrifying reality that you can end up, almost as if by accident, not having lived your given life. At its harshest, and most literally brutal, it can be taken from you by the appalling carceral state, by systemic racism, by the endless crimes of inequality—by the theft of opportunity. But it can also be taken from you minute by minute by the shortcuts that everything you encounter invites you to take—to keep up, to do more within less time, to trade in wisdom, or even knowledge, for information. Our ever-shortening attention span craving its quick satisfactions—which affects whatever creative act might even be attempted, curtailing it before it even finds deep water—is the most powerful tool of the surveillance capitalist state, or whatever you want to call this enmeshment of powerful interests using our desire for instant access to enrich itself.

Jorie Graham

[vivalasigh]

I had what I am realizing was a difficult week. I got rejected from a journalism fellowship I'd interviewed for, the choir I'd been singing in for 8 months abruptly ended after the priest more-or-less fired my choir director, work has dried up at one of my jobs (temporarily & it'll start again in June, but it means less income for the next month), and to top it all off I went to a really weird poetry reading last night that def dysregulated me (one of the performers was prob drunk & v disrespectful).

Then I started looking at apts, because I felt like I needed STABILITY, but there's not much out there that's any good, and I think the housing search made me more depressed.

Anyway, it makes sense that I am not feeling great and furthermore, that it took a minute for all of that to sink in becuase Monday especially had 2 bad things happen on the same day.

[sci-universe]

Amazing aurora spiral captured by David Cartier.

[achillesinhighheels]

[vlindervin7]

perfect poem