“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
— Warsan Shire
And for f sake mate. My brother Ryan just knows the greatest thing -Xmas gifts.
He got Phoebe some pink and white checkered van slip ons too.
Looooove you brother 🤘🙏💛
opens tonight, 6-8p:
“TELEMETRY” William Leavitt
Greene Naftali Gallery, 508 W26th St., NYC
i mourn broken walls that i have never seen,
i grieve graves that haven’t been dug,
i weave tapestries of bloody reds and regrown greens,
i mourn a fathers loss and a mothers hug
my heart pains for cries that haven’t been heard,
it searches ruins for hands not found,
my heart exists in the broken wing of every bird,
my heart exists in the thousand bodies that litter the ground
i exist in the ribs that poke through the skin,
i exist in the hopeful eye and the vacant one,
i exist in battles we can’t win,
i exist in the war that has been won.
i echo the sound of a mother who outlived her child,
i echo the sound of a sister left alone,
i echo the sounds of destruction and the wails of the wild,
i echo the sound of guilt in your hearts of stone.
i am the shame of your children, i am the question of humanity,
i am the victor, i am the resilient, i am everything you could never be.
i am humanity. perseverance. hope. love. resilience. strength.
from the river to the sea.
art moodboard: John William Godward
Yanyi, from Dream of the Divided Field: Poems; “The Friend”
[Text ID: “stop fighting, but I am not / fighting. I am noticing / where I don’t exist. / I should leave.”]
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow. So today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly love.”
— Dalai Lama
“Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man