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ratsoff: Jenny Holzer. (via kateoplis.)

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:42:40 -0400

ratsoff:

Jenny Holzer.

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ratsoff: (via kateoplis.)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:57:58 -0400

ratsoff:

(via kateoplis.)

"To depict a battle we need a painter with chaos in his brush. Rembrandt is better than Van der..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:54:58 -0400

“To depict a battle we need a painter with chaos in his brush. Rembrandt is better than Van der Meulen; he who was accurate at noon is a liar by three o’clock. Geometry is misleading; only the tempest is true.”

- Hugo

"The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty. Try to be more like the ground."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:19:20 -0400

““The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty. Try to be more like the ground.””

- Rumi

showslow: Niagara Detroit

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:21:59 -0400

showslow:

Niagara Detroit

"I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight...."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:31:57 -0400

““I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.””

- Carol Rifka Brunt

Spy Hunting 4 by frankzappai on Flickr.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:30:38 -0400

Spy Hunting 4 by frankzappai on Flickr.

Lymbyc Systym - Fall Bicycle (Album Leaf Remix)

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:28:19 -0400

Lymbyc Systym - Fall Bicycle (Album Leaf Remix)

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:46:09 -0400

Summer’s almost here…

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:43:18 -0400

Summer’s almost here…

"Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust,..."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:40:23 -0400

““Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home,
and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite,
not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.””

- Finn Butler

When I look back, your love was like the sun/And I don’t...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:27:25 -0400

When I look back, your love was like the sun/And I don’t remember no cold days, darling

"Afterwards, I asked you what color you thought you were. Skin? You asked. No, no. I said. Like..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:46:11 -0400

“

Afterwards, I asked you what color you thought you were.

Skin? You asked.

No, no. I said. Like blue, or orange, or maybe even
red.

But you didn’t answer, only folded yourself into sleep,
leaving me feeling like my body were a hollow building
in flames.

”

- Shinji Moon

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Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:22:08 -0400

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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:56:38 -0400

"‎It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly...."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:24:51 -0500

“‎It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”

- Aldous Huxley

likeafieldmouse: Edoardo de Falchi

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:32:35 -0500

likeafieldmouse:

Edoardo de Falchi

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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:32:04 -0500

austinkleon: Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:40:14 -0500

austinkleon:

Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication.

When asked about the drawings, Searle said, “I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.” Here’s a little more about them:

Prior to the cancer shock the couple had bought a decrepit house in the south of France and, despite her illness, Monica continued to devote her time making this house a home.

Devastated with his wife’s diagnosis Ronald did the only thing he knew how to do to cheer her up. .. draw.

Before every chemotherapy session he gave his wife a painting. Monica was depicted as a mole, a very happy mole celebrating life in their new home. (The Mole idea came after their discovery of a large celler that they made into a cosy room)

‘Everything about them had to be romantic and perfect,’ says Ronald. ‘I drew them originally for no one’s eyes except Mo’s, so she would look at them propped up against her bedside lamp and think: “When I’m better, everything will be beautiful.”

Searle died last week at 91.

(Images via bluedoorbooks)

angrywhistler: Carolyn Anderson

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:58:57 -0500

angrywhistler:

Carolyn Anderson