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when you become too much of something












let it go.









*and i'll have stories about my work, Luisa Marchesa Casati, art, love, and politics, coming soon. . .

word of the day

Michael Wolf - From the Tokyo Compression series

castrate |ˈkasˌtrāt|verb remove the testicles of (a male animal or man).• figurative deprive of power, vitality, or vigor : [as adj. ] ( castrated) the nation is a castrated giant, afraid to really punish subversives.nouna man or male animal whose testicles have been remove

*what does it mean to be

bon appetite

have some (francis) bacon today

or roast beef

word of the day

exodus |ek-suh-duh s
noun • a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people• the Exodus, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt

* so, where are the swallows today? 

word of the day

Fabien de Chavanes - currently exhibited at galerie binôme/Paris

limp(ly) adjectivelacking internal strength or structure; not stiff or firm • having or denoting a book cover that is not stiffened with board.• without energy or will
* because I saw the word twice within two hours in two completely different texts [New Yorker, Feb 28th; Nausea by Sartre] - I was having a bottle of wine by myself, in a London Cafe. Yes, an entire bottle. 

sweet dreams

photo by Shirin Fathi

I'm the only one who's allowed to use me

And so, I will use

and be used

grammer

Willem de Kooning - Queen of Hearts

love is plural 

hang in there

Don't remember the artist. But at Saatchi Gallery.

and I could hear them all scream. 

hopeless as they were, hopeful as I was. 

how could I justify that visceral feeling,

I'd been there once before.

a decision was made: I will continue.

i figured it out

art is

Arshile Gorky - Diary of a Seducer 

Vik Muniz - Spaghetti Medusa

From a sketchbook of Louise Bourgeoise 

an interpretation. 

It's a matter of

la corazon

coldfeet

oh come on . . . just blog already

hopefully

Rain, dear,

rain.

some days you are born

and they never knew how important it was to dream of flying, and not fly away

how all her favorite songs were meaningless now 

and how he was calling

 and he was deaf

and she was, after all, just a balloon.

not for xmas

Sometimes love can be material. This is how three of my favorite people did it  . . .

from Maryam: a sum of T.

from Rachel: a portable La Vie En Rose

from SNP: beauty is a bag

let december end

Chris Schad

Robert Jessup - Falling Couple

a little invention that really matters:

folding

things are queer

Duane Michals (1973) 

today

        William Daniels - William Blake II (2006)a

how do you nail a decision down?

picasso's elegant betrayal