sarah scampton

images found here

pay attention

'It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.' 

-- Robert Irwin

Cineflex - Norwegian sunrise from Fuglefjellet on Vimeo.

sunrise

Hernán Ardila, Untitled (2015)

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Louise Bourgeois

Still from F.W. Murnau's Sunrise.

Cy Twombly

found here

Mark Borthwick

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

circles of life

Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops,
Pulsates,
Resonates,
And
Repeats.

Circles
Of life,
Born from
Pulses
Of light,
Vibrate
To
Breathe,
While
Spiraling
Outwards
For
Infinity
Through
The lens
Of time,
And into
A sea
Of stars
And
Lucid
Dreams.

― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Untitled, David Horvitz, 2016

grays anatomy

Georgia O'Keeffe

Feldenkrais Method in action

Cy Twombly

Pierre Verger - Capoeira, Salvador, Brasil, 1946-1948

Nancy Spero

spiral motion

“When a person loses his way in the forest or in snowstorms or fogs he goes around in circles as long as he keeps on moving, until in some way or other he finds his way again. The same is true of foxes, rabbits, antelopes,’ and doubtless other animals, when hard pressed in the chase. Going down lower in the scale of organisms, where there are only poorly developed guiding senses, as in some of the crustacea, or none at all as in the protozoa arid the flatworms, one finds these creatures going in circles all the time that they are in movement, hut with a ‘drift,’ making the path a loose helical spiral. In all these animals and, in fact, in all motile organisms whatsoever, there is a deep-seated spiralling mechanism which leads an animal to go in a series of circles of spiral form when there are no guiding senses, as in the lower organisms. or when the guiding senses do not function through fear or for other reasons, in the higher. A tendency to spiral locomotion is inherent in all moving organisms. An examination of biological literature shows, as is well known, that the lower animals : flagellates, ciliates, rotifers, and the marine larvae of echinoderms, molluscs, worms, and crustacea swim in spiral paths, as well as some of the zoospores of algae and a few spermatozoa. So many organisms, in fact, swim in spiral paths that the negative aspect of the question is the more practical form for purposes of investigation : Are there any motile organisms which do not move in spiral paths when guiding senses are absent or not functioning?”

from here: “Spiral motion in man”

a seat at the table

THIS ALBUM on repeat....

pay attention

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention. 

Robert Irwin (quote found thanks to evencleveland).

Caroline Denervaud

cathédrale from caroline denervaud on Vimeo.

‘You Aren’t like Most Girls’

"How dare you tell me ‘I am not like most girls’,
when those ‘girls’ you refer to
are my sisters and mothers, my friends,
the very solace and the kindness I have sought
when the worst things in my life have happened?
How dare you assume
I should take that as a compliment,
and beam at you like it is praise
when you are alienating me
from the very core
of my proudly female being?
There are a thousand ways
to tell me you love me,
and making my sisters small
to make me big
isn’t one of them.

Tell me you love me, but not because I am different.
Tell me you love me, just because you do."

- ‘You Aren’t like Most Girls’ | Nikita Gill

“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”

— Susan Sontag

"Caillois ... called stones l’orée du songe—the shore of dreaming—and he amassed a wonderful collection, which he left to the Museum of National History in Paris where you can go and look at them; he also wrote two luminous books about stones. These are not about precious stones such as diamonds and rubies but about dendrites, agates, Chinese scholars’ stones—pebbles and rocks that look like nothing much at first but can open up wonders under contemplation ... They lead him to understanding the physical make-up of the world, its 'algebra, vertigo, and order.' He exults in their inscrutability and their lack of affect, their silence, their sheer stoniness. "

Marina Warner, "The Writing of Stones." Cabinet, Issue 29 Sloth Spring 2008.

The Writing Of Stones

A selection of stones from Roger Caillois' s collection, found via Arts and Science Journal

"Who knows whether this tumult of triangles inscribed in stone, first brought about by nature and then by art, does not contain one of the secret cyphers of the universe?

"I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax."

—From The Writing of Stones

Recommended Read

“Everybody

needs

a rock.

I’m sorry for kids

who don’t have

a rock

for a friend.

I’m sorry for kids

who only have

TRICYCLES

BICYCLES

HORSES

ELEPHANTS

GOLDFISH

THREE-ROOM PLAYHOUSES

FIRE ENGINES

WIND-UP DRAGONS

AND THINGS LIKE THAT —

if

they don’t have

a

rock

for a friend.”

-- Byrd Baylor

Everybody Needs A Rock by Byrd Baylor, illustrated by Peter Parnall, is not just for kids. Follow her simple but insightfull tips on searching for the perfect rock to the letter and you'll find yourself moving and looking in all the ways nature intended. Priceless.

“My period of indecision is over – I am going West… It came quietly – naturally… the country seems to call one in a way that one has to answer it.”

- Georgia O’Keeffe on moving to New Mexico

kill your idols

Kill your idols and your fables
Take your weapons off the table
It's only mercy now that you need in your world

Lay your burdens on my shoulders
For a while until it's over
I'm gonna love you like we're all each other have

rebecca horn

Rebecca Horn body extension pieces

back to the drawing board

The marvelous Marthe Armitage, found via evencleveland:

'Making takes time, commitment and training. People expect to make their fortunes at the drop of a hat these days.'

Amanda Brazier

The work of Amanda Brazier, making her own paint from things she collects to layer her canvases. I LOVE the process.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words:
discipline, love, luck, but – most of all, endurance.

-- JAMES BALDWIN via The Paris Review

‘I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity’

– Alexander Girard

Agnes Martin

 D'Metrius Rice

bowling, 1921

Tatsuya Noda

it's to sing up the earth

Richard Long, White light walk (1987)

Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn’t, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.

- Kiki Smith