1. Flame Nebula / 2. Orion Nebula

me in the spring sun

30 March, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

“…what qualities can I count on in myself? A horribly keen awareness of sensation and an all too deep consciousness of feeling… A sharp self-destructive intelligence and an extraordinary talent for dreams to entertain myself with…”

— Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Veronica Veronese [1872]

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

Freud said that we endlessly repeat past hurts, forever re-enacting the same patterns in a futile attempt to patch the un-healable wound. This, more than anything, is the terror of the personal, digital archive: not that it reveals some awful act from the past, some old self that no longer stands for us, but that it reminds us that who we are is in fact a repetition, a cycle, a circular relation of multiple selves to multiple injuries. It’s the self as a bundle of trauma, forever acting out the same tropes in the hopes that we might one day change.

Navneet Alang, "Terror of the Archive"

April, 1935 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939  [volume 2]

Joyce Carol Oates, "The Mercy"

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)