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Spanish surrealist painter Remedios Varo in her studio, 1957. Photographer: Duncan McNeill

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Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn created a gigantic pair of hands reaching out of Venice’s Grand Canal (2017)

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William Klein. Summer evening, via di Monserrato, Rome, 1956

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The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, December 10, 1889

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“I think communication starts when words are not present at all … I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”

— Marina Abramovic

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Egon Schiele - Port of Trieste - 1907

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it's been a while...

but i miss tumblr so let's see how long i'm back again. a lot has happened in the past year: took a delayed honeymoon to italy, (finally) finished training, sold my car and moved to the most beautiful city in the us (san francisco), traveled to japan for the first time, moved in with the in-laws, started a real job, went to a lot of weddings, found our dream house, bought our dream house, filled said dream house with a bunch of my parents' old furniture (INCLUDING THE BABY GRAND), and therefore have probably reached top level smug married life.

but anyway i need a place to log all the books i'm reading because i lost my notebook where i was writing them down, and i'm not cut out for the level of dedication that a goodreads account would require.

books i enjoyed in 2024:

moloka'i

remarkably bright creatures

lessons in chemistry

everything i learned, i learned in a chinese restaurant

the ocean at the end of the lane

the kamogawa food detectives

top book of 2025 (i've only read 2 so far): the museum of modern love

book i can't seem to finish: one hundred years of solitude

currently reading:

the muralist

emma

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Grace Kelly and stylist Edith Head look over costume sketches for To Catch a Thief (1955)

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Artists of the San Francisco Ballet in The Nutcracker

© Erik Tomasson 

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The Bystander, England, November 20, 1936

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la fine fleur | the rose maker (2020)

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la fine fleur | the rose maker (2020)

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England, 1923

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Pena Palace, Portugal (by Miguel)

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(via A former piggery transformed into a charming cottage by Amanda and Christopher Brooks | House & Garden)

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I noticed Katalin a few months ago, on the alleys of a small village inhabited by ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania, Romania. This lovely woman was holding some herbs from her garden. She was eager to offer them as a gift to another lady from the village.   When I look at Katalin, I see a whole generation of Eastern Europeans who have been through difficult times, but learned to see the beauty of simple pleasures. As children, they witnessed the second world war at its epicentre. Then an abrupt and painful transition to communism and cruel dictators. Then another painful transition to capitalism. But there was also a lot of happiness in their life, because they valued even the little things. Maybe that’s why this small bundle of herbs looks like a treasure in Katalin’s hands.