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Thérèse Schwartze - Portret van Lizzy Ansingh (1895)
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Mahmoud Darwish, “On Hope,” trans. Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb, in Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance
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Waiheke
you held me once, on your parent's couch in the afternoon sun, when a great grief broke loose from my sky and fell a debt I will never now repay
I offered— but we both could tell that your grief was too big to fit my arms around and anyway what you needed was not comfort, not to crash against the white cliff of anyone, to crumble them away like chalk, what you needed was time
so I sat vigil with you on the beach where you lay your pain down into the warm grass under a pōhutukawa, and gave yourself the best sleep I ever saw
thinking— if these sharp slivers of time were all we get let them stay stuck in me forever
for Bea 21/01/1980–10/03/2025
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Peonies
by Jim Harrison
The peonies, too heavy with their beauty, slump to the ground. I had hoped they would live forever but ever so slowly day by day they’re becoming the soil of their birth with a faint tang of deliquescence around them. Next June they’ll somehow remember to come alive again, a little trick we have or have not learned.
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Material Shapes
Connecticut-based prop stylist and designer Kristen Meyer creates geometric shapes using crackers, sticks, spaghetti, herbs, and other common raw materials. The finesse comes in her use of negative space, creating implied borders lines that help complete the shape without a full density of “ingredients.”
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The fact that Fountain is pissing off trads over a 100 years later is so fucking funny
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Gail Brodholt (British), From the Motorway, 2015, Linocut on paper
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Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵
1. Mount Fuji from a plane window.
2. Arc de Triomphe, Paris

3. Aerial view of Kaaba, Mecca

4. A view of the Taj Mahal that you do not usually see, highlighting the stark contrast between opulence and poverty divided by a single wall.

5. Top down view of the Statue of Liberty

6. The backside of Tutankhamun's burial mask

7. The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica seen through Rome's most famous keyhole.

8. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

9. Photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, captured an extraordinary drone shot of the Great Pyramid of Giza from an unusual perspective.

10. The Shanhai Pass, where the Great Wall of China meets the ocean.

for images 11 - 25, please see the source, here
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Jean-François Millet - Bird's-Nesters (1874)
Known for his realistic portrayals of French peasants, Millet produced this painting at the very end of his life. He based the scene on stories from his childhood that told of great flights of wild pigeons. When the birds settled in trees at night, the peasants blinded them with light from torches and then clubbed hundreds to death.
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I'm so proud of this vase -- and so glad it survived bisqueing. I think it's the most elegant form I've managed yet. I'm gonna raku fire it in a nice copper glaze.
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why did they start breeding busses to have flat faces. they can't breathe
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