Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
Care Doesn’t Scale
stevenscrawls.com • Care Doesn’t Scale
The painting is called Reading at a Table, and it is about exactly that: a woman sitting alone at a table, reading a book by lamplight. Her body seems to morph with the chair, and the book is positioned in a way that it seems to flow into her body, becoming part of her. She has the flowy, strange style of Picasso’s characters, but the strangeness i... See more
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
A good life might look awkward
Creation can just be editing
trinkets - matchbox sleeve
For five years, I’ve ceased to experience with shame what can be experienced with pleasure and triumph (sexuality, jealousy, class differences). Shame spreads over everything, prevents any further progress.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Actively counterbalance shame with pleasure, pride and joy.
Shame is unnecessary and contagious.
Card quote from Annie Ernaux’s Getting Lost
I co-sign on the idea that even though method and materials matter, the methodology should only be in service of the final goal. Do not create a perfect system that is impossible to maintain.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
Imperfect, consistent habit over an impossible-to-maintain perfect one