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1960s

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#pilates

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Inspiration from Sktchy http://sktchy.com/mSgTxH

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Trying out another @sktchyapp drawing - freckles are the best. #portrait #sktchy #practice (at Los Angeles, California)

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Long ago sketch somewhere in #America. My boss hitting on middle aged ladies at a dive bar. #drawing (at United States)

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Old lady portrait remix. #drawing (at Los Angeles, California)

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My first @sktchyapp drawing. What a fun idea for an app/drawing community. Finally got the guts to contribute. Can only get better if you try, right? (at Los Angeles, California)

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Love this portrait style

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFTZdSJ1Bc)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3nED6cNb8)

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tenderqueerthings #40, Mar Pascual. 2016.

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If you’re interested in hoarding and you haven’t already read Mess, get to it! It’s brimming – Yourgrau interviews hoarding expert Randy Frost, the notorious British hoarder Richard Wallace, members of Clutterers Anonymous and a Lacanian analyst, and reads Benjamin, Gogol, Balzac, and Dante, while telling a moving personal story with lightness and humor.   

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It is easy to be trapped in a story you are writing, and to suppose that the interest you feel yourself in the story is automatically communicated to the reader; this is terribly important to me, the writer tells himself, this is a matter of the most extreme importance to me, and therefore a reader will find it important, too. And the reader, opening one sleepy eye, thinks that the fellow who wrote this thing was certainly pretty worked up about something, wasn’t he; funny how hard it is to stay awake while you are reading it.

Shirley Jackson, “Garlic in Fiction” (via newyorker)

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The Art of Keeping: Paula Salischiker Documents the Homes of Hoarders

Argentinian photographer Paula Salischiker opens the door to the cluttered, uncomfortable home of hoarders in the United Kingdom. Attempting to understand the humanity in the mess, Salischiker attended multiple self-help groups in London and Essex to meet those who struggle. Surrounding by their ever-expanding collection of objects and trash, hoarders often feel lonely and paranoid about those in the outside world discovering their condition. Unable to see the debris about them, subjects were shocked by the photographs of their own homes. All admit the chaos and disorder somehow remains invisible.

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Just trying to de-clutter the home doesn’t work, because you’re dealing with the product of the behavior, not the behavior itself. That’s what’s so frustrating to family members — they’re trying to de-clutter and it ends up being a giant argument.

Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest (via hoardersdaughter)

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Art about hoarding

“These are some of views that I tried to first disguise with Photoshop  filters to make beautiful, then remove all but a few possessions using  rotoscoping techniques or paint to make them minimal, then combining  previous methods on used surfaces such as scraps of sandpaper and  crumpled paper in order to do something new with them.” Holly Fischer, Austin based artist

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All Those Wonderful Things

Karen Jackins' struggles with hoarding mask deeper challenges. Troubles in her past have made it difficult for her to connect with other people; she replaces the need for human connection with an attachment to things.