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David Grossmann（American, b.1984）

Forest Patterns with Moon Oil on linen panel 24 x 18ins via more

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when I was a kid I wished I had nosebleeds. I had some friends who had them and I was like. that looks so fucking cool. you're just sitting there and suddenly you're covered in blood. it looks so dramatic. it looks so... and here my language failed me. at such a humble age I did not have the vocabulary to describe the sublime. I just sat in incomprehensible jealousy. I turned out totally normal by the way

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“The position of the artist used to be the exception. Now the position of the artist has become this thing that people are kind of told to model themselves on. If you do have a job, you’re not just supposed to work eight hours/day or 40 hours/week, you’re supposed to work around the clock because you love it so much, you love it like you’re an artist. In my opinion, it’s especially incumbent upon artists that we deeply analyze and be very critical of the current paradigm because the creative ethos is being used to bolster this very exploitative new form of capitalism.”

— Liz Pelly interviews Astra Taylor (The Media)

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Joy Sullivan, “Blue", Instructions for Traveling West

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"The light presses down..."

by Frank O’Hara

The light presses down in an empty head the trees and bushes flop like a little girl imitating The Dying Swan the stone is hot the church is a Russian oven and we arc traveling still

you come by to type your poems and write a new poem instead on my old typewriter while I sit and read a novel about a lunatic’s analysis of a poem by Robert Frost it is all suffocating

I am still traveling with Belinda Lee where does she take me Africa where it is hot enough even to make the elephant angry and the grass is all withered and TV color

why do I always read Russian exile novels in summer I guess because they’re full of snow and it is good to cry a little to match your sweat and sweat a little to match their tears

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by Andres Gamiochipi

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To encounter oneself is to encounter the other: and this is love. If I know that my soul trembles, I know that yours does, too: and, if I can respect this, both of us can live. Neither of us, truly, can live without the other: a statement which would not sound so banal if one were not endlessly compelled to repeat it, and, further, believe it, and act on that belief.

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

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Inuit girl - Greenland - 1962

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Translation—Matthea Harvey, from Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

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When I say “I love you,” it means that I want to be near the feeling of ambivalence our relation induces and hope that what’s negative, aggressive, or just hard about it doesn’t defeat what’s great about it really—or in my fantasies of it, anyway.

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People

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Sir Yank's Records (& Heavy Disco), Gathorne Street, Leeds, Photo by Peter Mitchell, 1976

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Zhou Yansheng（周彦生 Chinese, b.1942）

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Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged people to remove WhatsApp from their smartphones, alleging without specific evidence that the messaging app gathered user information to send to Israel. In a statement, WhatsApp said it was “concerned these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them the most.” WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption, meaning a service provider in the middle can’t read a message.

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disappointment is a very difficult emotion to process for me and it's in almost all my writing