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personal work | oil and wax, powdered lead glass, 24k gold, rough opal, cut and polished opal, crushed fire opal, gilded porcelain

The Pale Horse is done! \0/

i am REALLY happy with how this turned out. and the original has a shimmer i wasn't able to get in the photo.

enjoy!

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“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin– I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night i dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb.– I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”

— Salma Deera, “salt”  

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Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby"

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Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

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I just read “each time you open a book and read, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death”and OH MY GOD

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a reminder that everything will work out 🌸

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fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky’s ‘shame sighs in my chest like a spare set of lungs, i. the humiliation of being intolerable devours me.’

[text id: i was so busy making up for my inadequate looks by trying to adapt new skills. / JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE. / JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE. / JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE. / JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE. JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE. / JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE. / JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE.]

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Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide. 

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i don't wanna use dating apps. i want to meet someone on the train and have one incredible night walking through the city together. we don't exchange numbers but promise to meet in the same spot in exactly a year. we do.

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Alexander Theroux

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is this what growing up is? just leaving things behind, over and over?

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the pain i feel when i think of dps is so bad, but i’m so interested as to why everyone feels this way. why do we all feel genuine loss towards neil? why do we all feel sadness start to grow whenever we think about the movie too much? is it because of how real it felt? how the scenes were shot and the dialogue was read? was it the settings? the actors? perhaps the fact that the story was just a part of their lives and that there was no happy ending? or that we’ve all felt as low as neil has and have all been at that point? when the snow’s falling and the night is chill we’ve all gone down that rabbit hole of thought and wondered how people would react, and his friends’ reactions were so raw and real. the movie properly captures and portrays a certain type of reality that we can relate to, even if we’ve never been there. the heaviness of the topics accompanied by the actor’s acting makes us all live it in such a heartbreaking way. something like this has happened before and will happen a million times more, and we’re helpless to stop it. we were helpless to stop neil, and we’ll be helpless to stop everyone else. hell, even neil’s friends couldn’t save him. i think the fact that neil was this happy, go lucky guy who always had a smile on his face was what hit the most. no one could stop what was coming, and no one truly saw it coming. even throughout the movie todd was the one with the more prominent issues, however neil was the one to step forward and do the unimaginable. neil was trapped and the only way he saw out was, well, out. and everyone can relate to that.

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"I am afraid of you.

In loving me, you hold a knife at my throat.

In loving you, I tell you exactly where to cut.

We are two against the world, yet I still do not trust your hand in mine.

This is new and I am terrified."

– a.j; vulnerability (via demonbrothers)

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The Félix Potin building, Paris, France