new light of tomorrow

“I reabsorb myself, I lose myself in myself, I forget myself in faraway nights, unpolluted by obligations and the world…”

— Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Kiki Smith: 'Constellation' (1996)

A cavern inside the body / builds its own wind patterns. A wound can eat me in reverse.

Sara Daniele Rivera, from The Blue Mimes; "With a Destructive Obsession"

A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise being used to hold telephone wires, 9 October 1918.

“Being anybody but yourself sounds really good. Even the memories seem fainter when you can smile with someone else’s mouth. […] Maybe if you wear the mask long enough, it will finally feel real.”

— Malin Rydén, Fallen Hero: Rebirth

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Albert Camus

Colette Baltzakis

Hands # 1, Paris, 1952

“And at night, always, a tribe of mutilated words, looks for refuge in my throat.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

secret garden

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trying to find the magic in life again after so much hurt and pain. there is a light somewhere

“I have to turn destruction into creation over and over again.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1939 (via luneison)

my coping mechanism has always been to disappear until I feel better. And sometimes I disappear for a year