what else is possible?

(a lot I think)

[killyridols]

wild star by grace kennison, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 18 × 21 inches

[weepingwidar]

Grace Kennison (US-American, 1995)

[writheworm]

internal systems diagram (2026)

[updownfragile]

Varda par Agnès (2019)

[wavesofundoing]

[wavesofundoing]

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

Permindar Kaur

You & Me, 1997

Polar fleece

52 pairs of figure

[edwordsmyth]

David Foster Wallace

[funeral]

Many places have a "forest that shouldn't be entered." Even people who are used to working in the mountains feel there is something there. They are suddenly overcome with fear and it becomes the custom to avoid certain places. These places exist. I don't know what is there, but I think they are real . . . The world is more than we can fathom with our five senses. The world doesn't exist just for humans. So I think it is all right to have such things. This is why I think it's a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential for human beings . . . I am concerned, because for me the deep forest is connected in some way to the darkness deep in my heart. I feel that if it is erased, then the darkness inside my heart would also disappear, and my existence would grow shallow.

Hayao Miyazaki, “Totoro Was Not Made as a Nostalgia Piece” in Starting Point: 1979-1996

[jareckiworld]

Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) — First Woman (rupestrian sculpture, 1981)

[wavesofundoing]

[wavesofundoing]

Mark Rothko, address to the Pratt Institute

[aloneholy]

rothko + fra angelico

[wavesofundoing]

from Red by John Logan

[wavesofundoing]

from Red by John Logan

[wavesofundoing]

In Santa Maria del Popolo, Thomas Gunn - Conversion on the Way to Damascus, Caravaggio

[s0distracted]

“What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical ‘mechanisms.’ There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically ‘normal’ forms of alienation. The ‘normally’ alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the ‘formal’ majority as bad or mad.”

R.D. Laing

[shisasan]

 if you have that mind why not make something beautiful?

July 13, 1932 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953