when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

and also: “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” — simone weil, tr. richard rees

Erik Nitsche, Asterisk (Furnishing Fabric), L. Anton Maix Fabrics, New York, NY, 1952 [MoMA, New York, NY]

(on the way of Flecha)

— Frank Bidart, from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”; Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Stunning pine Bonsai in cascade style, photo by 日本瑞祥愛好会.

Ghost in the machine, Mary Herbert

Ellie Ga, Classification of A Spit Stain, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, 2000, Edition of 25 (pt. 1) (pt. 2 here) (pt. 3 here) (pdf here) [Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY]

Columbus (2017) dir. Kogonada

A single shaft of sunlight breaks leaden clouds on New Zealand’s Dusky Sound

National Geographic | September 1971

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Love the Sentinel (detail)

1773-1776

Carmel beach, Big Sur https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZJQu6AW87/?igshid=3skqlfv3glpu

ernst prophète, “the souls of the dead, flying,” 1975

National Geographic, July 1906 (ph. George Shiras III) 

Still from Atonement directed by Joe Wright