Jean-Michel Folon  - The Red Sun   (watercolour On Cardboard, 1999)

Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.

— Olivia Laing, from Funny Weather

Mpho Tutu

Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.

- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)

BRENDAN FRASER accepts the award for ‘Best Actor’ at the 28th Critics Choice Awards (January 15, 2023)

what should i do?

Destroy everything you identify with, then identify with something that you cannot destroy. I chose the sky, not any one cloud but I am the container

-Good neighbours-

NGC 2174, Mystic Mountain Tops

The Frewen Cup, an engraved Nautilus shell set in silver gilt mounts, by John Plummer, England, c. 1650