-Emily Dickinson.

04/01/23 Saturday morning. blank pages and raw figs

October 2nd

my tbr for the month and the cutest (also most distracting) study buddy you could ask for

I’m being optimistic with this book stack but I want to read everything this month so fingers crossed I actually read something from it

🎧 Francesca by Hozier

Leave notes for who is coming next.

ig credit: themetropolitanist.

17 march 2023- painstakingly worked on a midterm, sent a bunch of e-mails, listened to hozier, gave up on writing and decided to read instead!

“There's plenty of artists who don't have exhibitions. There's plenty of art that's never seen. And I think I'm intrigued by that. Making work that does not have a destination has it's loneliness and it's sadness about it. Many artists endure that for their entire lives, and it's heroic. The novel that never gets published, should it never have been written? Of course it should be. It's making a fantastic contribution to the culture of the moment because that individual has that huge urge to do that without any other qualifying pressures. Those are my sort of private thoughts that I think there's a lot about the art world and the way we experience art that's fantastic, but I think there's a lot, that's not entirely spoken about or recognized, which is the unseen and the unknown and the creative act as a deeply private experience.”

-Phyllida Barlow, via art21 on Instagram (x)

going to bed at 3am or 9pm has been my grad school experience so far

taking a short break from law to do a literature and film course over the summer semester🌻🌿

He was akin to a bright evening:

Not day, nor night, – not dark, nor light!

Mikhail Lermontov, Demon

[transl. is mine.]

nobody cares, keep studying. you are the best supporter of youself.

and I’ll be a supporter for you, positive vibes that I’ll be sending for your academic life. keep going. Always.

from the desk 001 [january 17, 2024]

obv a bed not a desk but working on a new piece for my first (!!!) writing workshop this week. currently thinking about the influence of external perception on one’s internal identity, the construction of a name, the many tokens of death passed on to one’s ear from a long line of chinese telephones…

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

morning sunlight and the bowl of figs

July 6th ✨

We read, we breathe deeply and we try to devour each moment of calm

Istanbul, May, 2022

a quiet nice morning in the neighbourhood… it was really refreshing before plunging deep into my finals. i had a short morning class, then i took myself out to read the last fifty pages of this amazing book. journalling with an iced latte to keep you company was also pretty therapeutic for me.