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tell me where it hurts, oil and gesso on canvas, 48x36, 2022
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Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
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“Anger is an acceptable form of grief. You don't have to make your emotions palatable to those who are unmoved. Rage isn't the curse, apathy is.
In the absence of relief, our collective conscience can atrophy. You begin to believe this is the way it has to be. Resist. Dehumanization of the suffering is by design, but it is not an inevitable one.”
—Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies, January 2024
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
― Mary Oliver
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Diving platform, Königsberg, Boris Becker
Source: artblogcologne.com
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Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the telling of the story can transform a nameless event into a familiar or intimate one. We tend to associate intimacy with closeness and closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.
John Berger, "Some Notes on Song (for Yasmine Hamdan)"
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snoopy of the day
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unfolding into another spring
mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta
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Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
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Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883-1957) Hirakawa Gate 1930 color woodcut 9 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (image) 10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (sheet) Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
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"Well, I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect. What has kept me going has been the development of new modes of community. I don't know whether I would have survived had not movements survived, had not communities of resistance, communities of struggle survived. So whatever I'm doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities and I think that this is an era where we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectives that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism."
—Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Chapter Three: We Have to Talk about Systemic Change (Interview by Frank Barat in Paris [December 10, 2014])
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Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Mohammad Shaheen), Like a Hand Tattoo in an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet
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artist is thezaynalaebii on instagram
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Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbir Totoro (1988) The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)