marmalade-minestrone
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Wool Rugs Resembling Pastures by Alexandra Kehayoglou
Mark Francis
French, b. 1962
Symbiosis (Mesh), 1999
oil on canvas 84 x 71 in. | 213.3 x 180.3 cm.
“Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be. What if you need that which does not exist in your language?”
— Yoojin Grace Wuertz, “Mother Tongue”
Philipp Igumnov, Cloudhouse, Photo collage
Tighter and tighter - 11” x 14” on linen #embroidery #embroideryart #bordado #broderie https://www.instagram.com/p/B_swW1QHino/?igshid=1ja6hczjamfgx
~ Folio from the “Blue Qur'an”. Object Name: Folio from a non-illustrated manuscript Date: second half 9th–mid-10th century Geography: Made in Tunisia, probably Qairawan Medium: Gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment.
Historical library in the south of Lower Saxony / Germany
© Winston Duc Le
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude
Marcel Proust (via ancient-serpent)
Hsiao Chin 蕭勤 (Chinese, b.1935)
I had a discussion a few weeks ago I’m still thinking about about whether “optimism” is incompatible with “realism”
I think I’m both
I’ve seen shit and the reality is:
Flesh heals. Seeds sprout. Life longs for life. Humans hunger for love.
I know desolation can be as deep, as all-consuming, as the cold black void of space.
I know the reality is: somehow, in that vastness we have a planet we call home and nothing has killed us yet.
The romance of a books naked edges are akin to the visible areas of an iceberg, while the ideas,thoughts and meanings lie unseen from this perspective therein exists its trueness of whole.
Zouassi is a visual artist inspired by fractals. Here is the new collection of woven blankets, with a stunning mastering of weaving.
Web site / shop
Slow Evenings Embroidery - etsy shop | Instagram: @slow_evenings_embroidery
Bordando por ahí | Instagram: @bordandoporahi
Mental Crop Rotation
When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.
To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”
So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.
Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.
Jeffrey Earp
The National Anthem - 2020
Digitally processed lyrics of the Radiohead song “The National Anthem” (2000)
Everyone Everyone around here Everyone is so near It’s holding on It’s holding on
Everyone Everyone is so near Everyone has got the fear It’s holding on It’s holding on
It’s holding on It’s holding on It’s holding on
Song written by: Philip Selway, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Colin Charles Greenwood, Edward John O'Brien, Thomas Yorke
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
The National Anthem by Radiohead on Spotify
