…oh, I don’t know. All I know is that I’ve wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I’d get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don’t want it any more, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow’s sky.
– Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
Julian K. Jarboe, "First Contact, Communion." Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel
love is stored in the kitchen
perhaps the world ends here - joy hario // the world unseen (2007) - dir. shamim sarif // text post - @jacebeleren // daidai’s kitchen - @pakchoys // text post - @bicarusgf // in the kitchen - helena janecic // letter to donald windham - tennessee williams // お仕事 - @tomokohara // summer kitchen - donald hall // perhaps the world ends here - joy hario
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead. [...] The knowledge that as long as I went on living I would always have chances to feel these nights made it possible for me to have hope for the future. Lovely nights like tonight. The wonderful scent of the wind—a fragrance reminiscent of the aura of the mountains and the sea, which weaves slowly, translucently through every little nook and cranny of our town. I knew this night would never be back, but that didn’t matter. Just having the possibility, just knowing that I might find myself again in a night like this, in some other summer, was enough to make it all perfect.
— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi tr. Michael Emmerich
i. LOVE
- “Candy Toss,” 2000 | Justine Kurland
- “Women in the Rain,” 2005 | Marina Abramović
- “Dairy Queen,” 2000 | Justine Kurland
ii. FRIENDSHIP
- “Water For The People,” 2020 | Paul D'Amato
- “New York,” 1967 | Robert Lebeck
- “Water For The People,” 2020 | Paul D'Amato
iii. TOGETHERNESS
- “Forest,” 1998 | Justine Kurland
- “Bathers,” 1998 | Justine Kurland
- “Kung Fu Fighters,” 1999
| Justine Kurland
with quotes from Alice in Borderland, 2020 | Yoshiki Watabe, Yasuko Kuramitsu, Shinsuke Sato
for one of my uni assignments we had to create a piece based on ‘journey’ and i created a four piece ‘comic’ based on this quote. i don’t really like how the last page came out but oh well ;a;
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin
i am the knife and the wound
charles baudelaire // nicole homer, underbelly (2019) // unknown // matt maeson // nayyirah waheed // @heavensghost // @anmcrtist // emil m. cioran “encounters with suicide” // claire schwartz “shards with diffuse light” // richard jackson “basic algebra” // detail from “the suicide of lucretia”, 1525 by meester met de papegaa // “life of the party” olivia gatwood // emil m. cioran “the temptation to exist”