Vicki T
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Vicki T
Let people disapprove. Let them misunderstand. Remain illegible. This is the opposite of shame.
How to Banish Your Shame
While complicating the color palette she was using, Riley simultaneously simplified her language of forms. She all but eliminated squares, triangles and circles, and focused largely on stripes throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Stripes lend themselves easily to a study of repetition, which Riley perceived as essential to getting people to really look... See more
Phillip Barcio • Bridget Riley and the Philosophy of Stripes
lines are the primary form of perception, elements like shape and color come after
Agency, as I see it, is an amalgamation of two skills, or mental dispositions: autonomy and efficacy.
- Agency requires the capacity to formulate autonomous goals in life—the capacity to dig inside and figure out what wants to happen through you, no matter how strange or wrong it seems to others. In other words, it requires autonomy (which was what I
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
what is agency? breaking it down into 2 core components
I spend almost no time with people I intuitively don’t like or am bored by, where I used to assume I should ignore those impulses.
ldeming - Posthaven
I think it’s easy to feel paranoid and judged when you feel like you have no option but to keep every friendship alive no matter what. In your mind, if a friendship starts to go very bad, you only have two choices: Fix it, or ghost them. In my opinion, these are control tactics. Instead of admitting that some friends have mixed feelings about us —... See more
'My Friend Is an Asshole!'
learning how to talk about disagreements is important
But when you dismiss shame every day, every hour, you do end up feeling lighter and more carefree. You know you will expose who you are but you don’t care. You coax yourself out of tight spots now. You weather nerves with gentleness. You tell bright and loving stories about your foibles and mistakes.
How to Banish Your Shame
In other words, you no longer devote so many of your hours to being legible to others.
How to Banish Your Shame
Representational images would only distract from her primary ideas. So she simplified her visual language to utilize only black and white and the elements of line, shape and form.
Phillip Barcio • Bridget Riley and the Philosophy of Stripes
the power of comics and manga
balance & sacrifice / art & time
youtube.comthinking of the bigger picture
sacrifices are required for creating art to be a priority in one’s life; found oliver burkeman’s concept of “strategic underachievement” really interesting