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'Revive'

(Bronze, half life-size, 2019)

____Coderch and Malavia

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Now Was the Day Departing by Gustave Doré (1890)

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What We Want

by Linda Pastan

What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names -- now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don’t remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there even in full sun. 

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In this space right here that we have made for each other, you can say anything and I will not abandon you. Unwrap the worst things you have done. Watch me hold them up to the light and not even flinch.

— Trista Mateer

#imagine that

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Maya Beano.

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David Hockney Rain, from The Weather Series (NGA/Gemini 23.4), 1973 Color lithograph and screenprint on Arches watermarked paper; signed 'David Hockney 73' in green pencil along the lower edge

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"There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more." ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron who died on this day in 1824

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Ivan Meštrović, Amor and Psyche 1918

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‘Drunken’. Zhang Xu . 8th C

#asemic writing

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Apparently many think themselves one or the other, or both.

None of us are perfect, and honesty is shockingly rare.

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Play it LOUD.

Muse - Feeling Good.

#it’s been a while #she’s back #muse

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Jack Lenor Larsen South China Sea Textile 1972

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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

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______David Noonan

#the mask you chose to wear

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The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence.

Yusef Komunyakaa, from Blue Notes (University of Michigan Press 2000)

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Philippe Berthier