Tollef Runquist
Secret Room
Oil on canvas
Full video: Hummingbird Builds Tiny Nest, Nature on PBS (annaโs hummingbird)
list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals
cleaning or wipe your bare feet
breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly
bold of my professors to assume i can read
Wall of Hearts Volunteers have been hand painting 150,000 hearts on Memorial Wall to represent each life lost to COVID in the UK. Matt Fowler lost his father, last year after he fell ill in March. As tribute Fowler began the memorial wall last Monday morning, painting the first of 15,000 hearts drawn that day.
Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
โYour old name is not your king.
I rename you โEverything.โโ
D E P L O Y
t-shirt that says "i rely on pharmaceutical drugs to preform routine tasks"