night cry

"Night Cry" by Deborah Turbeville - NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.

Deborah Turbeville

Image by Masha Maroz via ilikethisblog

Hands. Found here

Greater than

who taught you
that the
value of a woman
is the ratio
of her waist
to her hips
and the circumference
of her buttocks
and the volume
of her lips?
Your math
is
dangerously wrong
her value
is
nothing less
than
infinite.

-- Della Hicks-Wilson

Sati Zech

Sati Zech

Perfect?

This image did the rounds on twitter last week with plenty of comparison with the current female body ideals. It's taken from Time magazines definition of a perfect body in 1955. 

She's gorgeous, but really?!? Can we stop now with the idea that there is a 'perfect body' or a body that represents 'real women'. There shouldn't really be a definition at all, should there? 

“All ideas grow out of other ideas.” 
 ~Anish Kapoor

Found here

Health Stamps

NHS 'Health Stamps' (1998)
 found via collectgbstamps

Agnes Martin (Again...)

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory-an awareness-of perfection.

Agnes Martin's works on paper.

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you’re swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water’s deeper than you think and there’s nothing there.  

-- Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

David Shrigley

Health

"Health doesn’t simply demand that we eat well and exercise, we need also to pay attention to how we feel physically and emotionally and act as intelligently as we can on those feelings.

...In yoga we are looking at how we move, how we breathe and how we feel. In fact, we are looking at how we inhabit our bodies. When we start to really pay attention to how we are, we notice more clearly the things that cause us discomfort and the things that make us feel better. If we stop noticing, we are more likely to move away from homeostasis. Think about how animals behave; when they are tired they sleep, when they are hungry, they eat and when they are wakeful they are active, they act on their feelings and in doing so they regulate their lives. Modern life often takes us away from the ability to respond to feelings, but if we ignore them for too long illness can be one of the consequences."

-- Peter Blackaby

Neon by Stefan Bruggemann

Monday

Neon by Stefan Bruggerman

(Source: destructs)

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Margaret Morris Movement

Archive images from the International Institute of the
The Margaret Morris Movement

 
"Dance is for everyone who loves to express themselves through
creative movement.
MMM gives an understanding of how correct breathing can increase stamina and range of movement, how working on posture can improve health and vitality, how using the body’s natural opposition can strengthen muscles, all this as well as balance, agility and co-ordination leading to being able to free the body to dance and the mind to be creative.
MMM gives the technique to improve skills and the encouragement to be creative."

Sounds familiar ; )

Friday!

Found here

Staying with the note

Do you ever listen to music to meditate? It's one of my favorite methods. It doesn't matter what the music is, it just has to be something you enjoy listening to.

Press play.
Sit back.
Listen with attention to every single note, word, beat and silence.

Meditation should be enjoyable. We only consistently do things we actually like doing!

(image found here.)

The Inflated Tear

“The Inflated Tear” sounded like the entire spectrum of the history of African-American music rolled into one four-minute song: old slavery spirituals, work songs, field hollers, soul, modern jazz, and early blues. It was like a Duke Ellington reed section, yet more emotional, more intimate, with a sound that ached of centuries. It was like listening to the inside of someone’s heart.

Songs Of Our Lives: Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s “The Inflated Tear” by May Cobb

Source: therumpus.net

Fragments

I have a desire to do THIS butterfly entomology course...thank you Mair!

works in progress

"we
are
all
just
fragments.
tiny
unfinished works
of our
parents’
prose."
 

—  Della Hicks-Wilson

LOGS, AN ORANGE, THINGS IN A BOX.

Celia Perrin

From GRIND LONDON!

Robert Ryman

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, 

loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. 

- The While Album, Joan Didion

Art works by Robert Ryman

(Found here)

“My dreams have never been kept within reason.”

— E. B. White

D. B. Horowitz

Stretchy drawings by D. B. Horowitz