Hello,
I hope you're doing amazing. And if not, I hope you're looking forward to doing well.
I said I'd have some stream of consciousness type stuff for y'all this week. So I'm doing that, but not in writing. Here are a few drawings/sketches/collages I made today (and recently), mostly haphazardly.
No words, just pictures, by me.
Plains
Hundreds of Tiny Flames
Galata Girl
Sue
Stuart
Joan
Love,B
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Currently Reading: Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion
“Make a place available to the eyes, and in certain ways it is no longer available to the imagination.” Excerpt From: Joan Didion. “Let Me Tell You What I Mean.”
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Recently Watched:
La Haine
Mathieu Kassovitz
Goddamn. Goddamn...Had my mom and sister watch it today. They may not have "liked it", but it moved them, no doubt.
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Dictionary Entries:
Bildungsroman - a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education; In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, in which character change is important. The term comes from the German words Bildung and Roman.
Inchoate - just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary; confused or incoherent; (of an offense,) anticipating or preparatory to a further criminal act; An inchoate offense, preliminary crime, inchoate crime or incomplete crime is a crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime. The most common example of an inchoate offense is "attempt".
Grimoire - A grimoire is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities and demons.
Wisława Szymborska - Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life.
"Somewhere out there the world must have an end."
- Wisława Szymborska
Love is the Message, The Message is Death by Arthur Jafa - In Love is the Message, The Message is Death, Jafa presents a nuanced portrait of black life in America, set to Kanye West's gospel-inspired anthem “Ultralight Beam.” In a rush of collaged video footage, Jafa points to the ongoing violence against black people that is endemic to U.S. history.
Watch Love is the Message, The Message is Death -- HERE
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Thank you endlessly. Love you endlessly. Don't be afraid to save yourself, I promise they'll understand.
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That's all from me for this one. Thank you for reading. And please feel free to reply to these emails if you feel inclined to. I'll be here.
B.