Libra season (C.B)(9.30.18)

There’s a reason a sewing kit includes scissors, a wood shop has a saw, and a kitchen is full of knives. In order to build something, to create something on purpose, you have to be prepared to cut away what’s extra. A bolt of cloth does not a blanket make, a piece of wood a shelf, nor a loaf of bread a sandwich. When you snip off frayed bits of string, cut the wood into shape, or slice the end off a loaf of bread you are creating, with the act of removal, something closer to what you desire. 

Now let’s say you’re not sewing a blanket, you’re not building a shelf, not making a sandwich. Let’s say you’re crafting a life in which you are happy. You will end up removing things. You’ll leave partners, stop talking to family members, let go of friends. You’ll move apartments, lose jobs, change wardrobes. And you will feel their absence. You’ll look at the scraps of cloth, the odd angles of wood, the stale end of the loaf. But that cloth couldn’t keep you warm and that tiny corner of wood can’t store books. You wouldn’t be full from that little bit of bread or happy with that person. In the art of creating there is the act of removal and it is essential. 

mushroom house in Sendai, Japan

Andy Dixon‘s vibrant and decadent paintings examine the relationship between art and money. See more here.

The Big Apple (‘82-'84), Frank Horvat

Nothing is forever, Lydia Leith

Emily Jan. Apologue 1: Anteater, 2016.

wool, reed, silicone, resin, hog gut, found greenery, faux flowers, 

found furniture

1958-C Disneyland Map

i made a purple vamp kermit btw :) look at him he's so evil

Shikun, 27

“I’m wearing a vintage dress bought in Edith Machinist and a Ralph Lauren Fall16 patchwork coat. I don’t have a specific style, I change my style everyday. My favorite designers are Dries Van Noten, Uma Wang and Loewe. Recently I like purple a lot, don’t know why.”

Mar 28, 2018 ∙ Greenwich Village

Night on the Shores of Lake Ilmen, Ivan Bilibin

Chicago, 1967 Photographer James L. Stanfield

paisley rekdal / gail hareven / tracey emin / hélène cixous / sarah kans / karese burrows / richard siken / leila chatti