flourish

Landscape CW #02 - Saskia Boelsums , 2025

Ducht, b. 1960 -

Canson Infinity archival pigmentprint , 150 x 150 cm. Ed.of 3

There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.

There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.

There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.

There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.

There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.

There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.

You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.

Cat on Yellow Wall II - Hun Adamoglu

Cypriot-British , b. 1975 -

Cat on Stripes - Felicity House

British , b. 1950 -

Sunlight in the Sea - Inge Schiöler , 1940s . 

Swedish , 1908 - 1971