No Ordinary Love, Salman Toor. Details. Special Exhibit, Baltimore Museum Of Art, 7.30.2022

I’m having a conversation with one of my friends and I ask him, “What defines you?” and he responded with, “Nothing. A definition excludes the possibility for change.”

This is one of the best responses I’ve ever received to any of my questions.

I really like how many of the world’s most iconic structures and places are just right next to some of the most mundane stuff imaginable, for example

Stonehenge

Is right next to a busy road

The Pyramids of Giza

Are at the outskirts of Cairo

Niagara Falls

Are part of the town of the same name

And Agrippa’s Pantheon

Is crammed inside downtown Rome

It just so interesting to notice.

Painter painting in our land pictures of only white angels Painter painting in our time in shadows of yesterday

Painter, if you paint with love, paint me some black angels now For all good blacks in heaven, painter show us that you care

Eartha Kitt - Angelitos Negros (1970 performance)

There are many stories in Twin Peaks — some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery — the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.

TWIN PEAKS 1990–1991 | created by Mark Frost and David Lynch 

To note:

FR: concentrer /EN: focus

FR: écureuil /EN: squirrel

FR: pingouin /EN: penguin

FR: câlin /EN: hug

the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

Frida Kahlo, Photo by Gisèle Freund,1948

Agnes Pelton

"There's something I have to tell you. The books never hurt me. The ideal world of books has an atmosphere of poetry that purifies everything... do you hear?" (Letter from Renee Vivien)

“Il faut que je vous dise quelque chose : c'est que les livres ne m'ont jamais fait de mal. Le monde idéal des livres a une atmosphère de poésie qui épure Tout… entendez-vous ?” (Lettre de Renée Vivien)

Bro İ hate being an academic they're making me write shit 😭 İ thought İ was just supposed to sit in an old chair smoke & say something french every now and then 😢