On [:] Weird | David Foster Wallace, 1996
Kirsty Elson “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite...
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Frame inside | Portrait of Alice B. Toklas | Dora Maar, 1946
Dora Maar and her portrait of Alice B. Toklas with her inseparable dog, Paris 1946 Dora Maar, Portrait of Alice...
Instant Views [o.] Playing with marbles | Photos by John Vachon / Ina Bandy / Vernon Merritt, 1890-1970
Playing marbles, 1950s Playing marbles, Ireland, 1930 John Vachon, Playing marbles, 1940 Two boys playing marbles, 1955 Ina Bandy, The...
On [:] Surprise | Voltaire, 1694-1778
Claude Monet, Landscape on île Saint-Martin, 1881 “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once;everything in nature...
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear | A poem by Mosab Abu Toha, 2021
Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1928 For Alicia M. Quesnel, MD i When you open my ear, touch itgently.My mother’s voice...
Shadows | Paintings by David Hockney, 1978-2021
David Hockney, Landscape with Shadows, 2021 "Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in...
Alphabetarion # Distrust | Elmore Leonard, 1985
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Saturday Night, 1984 “"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "whenyou plant seeds of distrust in a garden of...
Book//mark – Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin, 1953
James Baldwin, New York, 1953 / James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, 1953 “There are people in the...
On [:] World | Lewis Buzbee, 2008
Egon Schiele, Still life with books (Schiele's desk), 1914 “Books were in the world; the world was in books.” Lewis...
Photographers [Oo] Life is what you choose | Sergio Larrain, 1931-2012
Sergio Larrain, 1931-2012 “People that do creative work, have to isolate themselves, they are all hermits, one way or another."...