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Lamine Niang at Versace SS 22 

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"And I think its a really fearful time for young writers with a bellyful of fire. It's a fearful time cos if you listen to the voices (the market forces, the distractions) you're not going to get fire out of you, you're going to get water out of you. But for godssake, I want you to get fire out of you and that's why we've been having this conversation, to reawaken the fire, the wonder, the splendour, the misery, the mystery, why is it we write?

We don't write to be polite on the page. We don't write to get nods in the mind. We write to explode the inner rooms of people. So that the rooms in which they read, opens out into the whole world and they feel the radiance touching everybody and they can feel for one moment, that they can be anything or nothing if they chose to be, but just to be hit by that extraordinary vigour and power that a true piece of writing - whether its a sonnet, whether it's a poem of four lines by Rilke, whether it's a short story by your beloved Chekov, whether it's a punch by Toni Morrison or a head-butt by Ralph Ellison, that's what we want. We want the raw, fire.

(Thats what we were trying to contribute to here) you shouldn't pay any attention to the market forces, we should write from our spirits, whether that gets published, I don't know how we break that hegemony, I don't know how we do that. (how do you get a contract? how do you pay your bills? how do you pay your rent? how do you feed your children? - There was a time when writers formed co-operatives and published each others works, that's gone now that's all disappeared) He (Cornel) talks about being a prisoner of hope, me too, as far as literature."

Ben Okri in conversation with Cornell West, University of Cambridge, 2013

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Casper Faassen

falling floating

2019

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in the shade of a tree 🌾💜

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november 🍂 enjoy the colors before they're gone

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Morton Arboretum, outside Chicago

October 2023

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Sunset ✨

Mixed media piece done with colored ink, pastels and poster color for my solo show at Gallery Nucleus in the fall of 2023 💕

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cherries 🍒

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an autumn date~

(prints)

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i would have played pretend on the playground with all of u btw