Buying Bewilderment

Autumn maple leaves, by Kawarazaki Shodo (ca. 1920).

Lake Constance landscape in stormy weather (Thunderstorm at Lake Constance), 1939

Rachel Hall (American, based Baltimore, MD, USA) - We Don’t Have The Heart To Tell Him, 2018, Drawings: Graphite, +Digital

​the natural history museum in London.

Sidney Herbert Sime - Illustrative Design of Fountain and Figures. N.d.

YE NEUTRAL MILKE HOTEL

The Last Kaiju, Brian Luong

When you feel better from this – and you will – it will be quiet and unremarkable, like walking into the next room. It might sting a little, like warmth leaking into cold-numbed hands. When you feel better, it will be the slow clearing of static from the radio. It will be a film set when the director yells cut! When you feel better, you will take: a plastic spoon for your coffee foam, free chocolates from the gleaming oak reception desk, the bus on sunny days, your own sweet time. When you feel better, it will be like walking barefoot on cool, smooth planks of wood, still damp from last night’s rain. It will be the holy silence when the tap stops dripping. The moment a map finally starts to make sense. When you feel better, you will still suffer, but your sadness will be graspable, roadworthy, have handlebars. When you feel better, you will not always be happy, but when happiness does come, it will be long-legged, sun-dappled: a giraffe.

ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

Katsushika Hokusai - Ghost in the moonlight

Tintern Abbey, North Window about 1865

Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red (1985)