august 16th & 17th

happy one year anniversary

sister cities acting up

“In what government and arts officials are calling the most ambitious commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany, a symbolic re-creation of the wall that once separated East and West Berlin will be erected across Wilshire Boulevard in November.”

manquer

june four in polska

remembering 1989, or
“kylie can’t get poland out of her head”

for grandma j, today

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn,a human being;somebody who said to those near him,when his fingers would not hold a brush “tie it to my hand”–

nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing feeble and known or clumsy and guessed. Everywhere tints childrening,innocent spontaneaous,true. (…) Nothing believed or doubted;brain over heart, surface:nowhere hating or to fear;shadow,mind without soul. Only how measureless cool flames of making;only each other building always distinct selves of mutual entirely opening;only alive. Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno,impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong;never to gain or pause,never the soft adventure of undoom,greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence;never to rest and never to have;only to grow.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question

e.e. cummings
excerpt from the introduction to new poems

south central farm documentary

because it’s never too late to learn.
forthcoming screenings here
official website here

nous t’aimons.

notes from the belvedere

egon schiele (1890-1918)

klimt – the kiss – made me cry
oil silver gold on canvas

he had another painting, of a man on deathbed, done in oil on cardboard, i think that made L. proud somehow

mucha – i want to draw
pencil charcoal black pen gold ink gouache

study of plant growth
astronomy & science, which ultimately teach us about the spiritual

there are just people packed in here, it is suffocating

color lithography