Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book Of Hours: Love Poems To God [originally Published 1905]

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

After all, it's just a sunset. Full track here

the holdovers (2023)

start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

Upside Down

Finished coloring while waiting on feedbacks for my work.

Curiosa (2019) // dir. Lou Jeunet

But did you know that the actors who play Alex Standall and Justin Foley are dating in real life?!?!

Have a wonderful christmas time. Remember, this Moomin loves you. This Snufkin too.