IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

I was NOT psychologically prepared to read Eisenstein’s screenplay for Ivan the Terrible. There’s a “deleted scene” where Fyodor Basmanov chases a Zemshchina girl who (understandably) thinks he’s trying to sexually assault her until he says “no, I just want your earrings,” then he takes her earrings and and holds them up (I’m going to say probably to his own ears), then his father comes in and takes them away. This emotionally destroyed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate. 

“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”

— Andy Goldsworthy

there is love in this story. even in its most brutal end. there is love in the story. how? where? here: here in me telling it to you, in spite of everything. because of everything.

Marie Howe, Gretel, from a Sudden Clearing

about couthon's bunny - source + translation

Aeschylus (trans. Anne Carson), from An Oresteia; “Agamemnon”

Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “Between Aging and Old”

i saw the best necromancers of my generation destroyed by lesbian situationships

break my arms around the one i love

poem: Shauna Barbosa GPS art: @mmelodyj / unknown / Ainslie Hogarth Motherthing / Keaton St. James HISTORY STUDENT FALLS IN LOVE WITH ASTRO PHYSICS STUDENT / @555w4 / unknown / Ada Limón The Good Fight / @sunsbleeding

there is not IV, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm