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metal + wood tips

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Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988)

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Helena Georgiou

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Under the logic of capitalism, there can be no greater luxury than the luxury of time or, rather, the crime of boredom. For to be bored is not to have made full use of time, to be inefficient, to waste time. If mainstream cinema’s aim is to provide “escapism” from boredom by utilizing “various forms of speed (activity-filled narratives, rapid camera movement, fast cuts, up-tempo soundtracks, and so on) to keep us entertained” (Misek 2012, 135, 137), the slow art film, on the other hand, “anticipates a spectator not only eager to clarify the value of wasted time and uneconomical temporalities but also curious about the impact of broadening what counts as productive human labor” (Schoonover 2012, 65). A cinema of slowness, therefore, invites us to reconsider the value of waste…

Song Hwee Lim, Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (2014)

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Art Smith

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‘Aglaia’ Sweater by Stephanie Blackburn

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Fish preservation, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging

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I hope you know that it’s always this

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four metal chopsticks engraved with a quote from the poem "north country" by mary oliver:

you listen and you know you could / live a better life than you do, / be softer, kinder. and maybe / this year you will be able to do it.

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Amy Brier’s limestone carvings

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'top, bumsters + shoe-boots, s/s 1996, by alexander mcqueen' in fashion + textiles in the international collections of the national gallery of victoria - robyn healy (2003)

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Appaloosa

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me before i got into weightlifting and hard cardio:

me after lifting and cardio:

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Howardena Pindell

Space Frame, 1968

graphite on graph paper

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Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star