bearingwitness

[bearingwitness]

“Grace” by Florence + the Machine / “Sun in an Empty Room” by Edward Hopper

#art #lyrics #florence welch #edward hopper

[bearingwitness]

Jane Hirshfield, “The Weighing” / Franz Marc, “The White Bull”

#art #poetry #jane hirshfield #franz marc

[bearingwitness]

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”

#w #survival #the wound

[bearingwitness]

Devin Kelly, All that wanting, right?

#devin kelly #poetry

[bearingwitness]

anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won��t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”

#anne boyer #julia armfield #hilary mantel #marie howe #gregory orr #the body #suffering #pain #web weaving #w #toni morrison #torrey peters

[bearingwitness]

Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

Text ID: I always return to myself, always more faithfully.

#w #the self #marguerite duras

[bearingwitness]

Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

#w #the self #wound

[bearingwitness]

“I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

#jean paul sartre

[bearingwitness]

Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (1993)

#helene cixous #on writing #wound

[bearingwitness]

Jenny Holzer, Marquees 1993 // Anäis Nin, the Diary of Anäis Nin 1939-1944 // Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind // Chen Chen, Let Me Stay Tender-Hearted // Marina Tsvetaeva, Where Does This Tenderness Come From? // Adrienne Rich, X in Twenty-One Love Poems // Kayleb Rae Candrilli, All the Gay Saints // Sophie Klahr, Tender //Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

#tenderness #web weaving #parallels #jenny holzer #ada limón #chen chen #marina tsvetaeva #adrienne rich #jenny slate #w #art

[bearingwitness]

South London Forever // Daffodil - Florence + the Machine

#florence welch

[bearingwitness]

Hilma af Klint  Tree of Knowledge, No. 5 (Kunskapens träd, nr 5) with detail 1915 From The W Series (Serie W) Watercolor, gouache, graphite and metallic paint on paper 18 1/16 x 11 5/8 inches (45.8 x 29.5cm) © The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm Photo: Albin Dahlström, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

#art #hilma af klint

[bearingwitness]

jenny holzer

#art #jenny holzer

[bearingwitness]

— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Milena.”

#w #franz kafka #ineffable

[bearingwitness]

I’m a bit obsessed with this website … just a bit

[bearingwitness]

"the sluts and the saints: a letter to zézim" by caio fernando abreu re: clarice lispector (tr. by Bruna Dantas Lobato for the los angeles review of books)

#w #clarice lispector

[bearingwitness]