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gm!!

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American Tramp Folk Art Wall Pocket, circa 1880.  Polychromed and mirrored with a “Good Luck” horseshoe, kissing cockatoos and wing motif. Chip carved with 2 drawers supporting an open pocket, completely constructed of cigar boxes. 28 in. x 16 in. 

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A pair. The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out. 1936.

Internet Archive

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Chimère

2014

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does any one else think it should be easier

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𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

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But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?

Kazuo Ishiguro, in his 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech (via antigonick)

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Sister Anastasia

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there’s something very calming about the kitchen sink

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Dianne Della Rocco, Inflated Structure, Hofstra University, New York, 1972. Photograph by Hoot Von Zitsewitz.

“This huge inflated sculptural form was the environment for a musical presentation by Hofstra students. It was first sewn together, then inflated with fans and tethered with nylon cord.”

From “Super sculpture: using science, technology, and natural phenomena in sculpture” by Diane B Chichura, 1974. https://www.instagram.com/p/CV00JuotcQf/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Strawberry postage stamps from St. Pierre and Miquelon, Brazil and Sweden 🍓

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just you and me.

@/softkatie / Griff (Shade of Yellow) / Jeanette Winterson (Written on the Body) / Mary Oliver (Wild Geese) / Florence + the Machine (No Choir) / R. Arnold

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“men are the providers” of what? misery? 95% of violent crime?

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JENNY HOLZER

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Vixen the princess