Life itself

Collection of Chinese photographs from bulks of discarded 35mm negatives found in a garbage dump near Beijing. The photos feature a dying Chinese wedding custom, which involves brides lighting cigarettes to engage in 'smoking games' with the groom. The images, which were captured between 1985 to the early 2000s, led to the archival project that preserves ordinary moments of citizens’ lives in history. The photos are now sold as a collection in a pocket-sized photobook, Until Death Do Us Part, which comes in a real package of Chinese cigarettes that are commonly used at weddings, known as Double Happiness Cigarettes.

William Nicholson The black pansy 1910

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

[Text description:

You can put your strength down. I’m sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don’t need to say anything.

END]

[ID: A white piece of paper on which is written: I’m down in the garden. I love you. Here’s coffee.]

national geographic  august  1968

recent film (this is what the inside of my heart looks like)

Laura Makabresku. The Anatomy of Melancholy (self-portrait, 2021).

Medieval stained glass fragment incorporated in a later window at the church of All Saints, East Barsham (Norfolk)  

image from here

 @WeHeartIt

Glow From The Depth  By Salar Kheradpejouh

View from Dùn Na Cuaiche, Inverary Castle, Argyll, Scotland by adambulley

There's nothing more intimate than reading someone's personal book collection .

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Budapest metro, 1973. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

ducks in the snow