Job market so bad I started following my dreams

Mark Rothko, address to the Pratt Institute

god is putting all his focus on hudson williams right now and the ramifications at this point could only be on the scale of like the state of arkansas sinking into the center of the earth

We’re all wonderful pretenders and that’s why anything is real

It weeps (Es weint) by Paul Klee, 1939

you don’t need to reinvent yourself this summer; you simply need to return to the things that make you feel most like you

Get an ask in my inbox -> read it -> "oh, that's nice; I need to think of a good response" -> "this deservea more attention than I can give it rn; I'll take another look at it later" -> close inbox until later -> "later" never really comes -> forget -> repeat

Smoking Angels, 1920

Giovanni Bellini, Pietà, detail, c 1460, Pinacoteca di Brera

Joanna Newsom - ‘Have One On Me’

In her own words:

“The photo on the cover of Have One on Me was modeled after typical Orientalist fantasy-figure iconography, like an odalisque or a Venus in Furs—a sort of cartoonish amalgamation of feminine signifiers stylized to illustrate the Lacanian idea “Woman is a symptom of man.” Annabel Mehran, the photographer, used black-and-white film that the artist Becca Mann later hand-tinted over with watercolors. The idea was to mock-up a shabby, 1920s Parisian studio with an absinthe-dulled lady posing on a divan in bits of old drapery fabric, and then paint over the resulting tableau into some idealized, Technicolor, hedonistic fantasy set. The specifically female, earthbound, corporeal, and decadent character in that album art reflects the character of those songs’ narrator as well as the idea of feminine self-diminishment.” -Joanna Newsom