Mark Rothko, views of The Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX which opened in 1971 after Rothko’s suicide in 1970
Norihiko Oyamada (Japanese, b. 1946), Bellflower. Print, 15.8 × 22.7 cm.
via inland-delta
Pablo Picasso would carry a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would shoot at people who asked about the meaning of his paintings, 1958.
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
“We all move forward anyway. Ripples in all directions. What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn’t know it’s dead.”— Richard Siken, from “Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede”, published “War of the Foxes”
This year, back yourself. Back yourself to get good grades. To secure that job. To reach your goals. Back yourself to finish that project, create that art, write those poems. Back yourself when no one else does, when you feel like you have no reason to. Back yourself and you’ll realise just how far that can get you.
Tell yourself pain is normal.
A cliché. The sky.
at your feet. You feel pity
for the way it lies there. It has
no mother. No father. Yet.
you have the urge to stomp on it.
To beat it to death.— Chelsea Dingman, from “How to Survive [A Stillbirth],” published in Juxtaprose
in case you’re having 1 of those days. you got this!
Der Planet , Ludwig Schwarzer.