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Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

Dustin Emory (American, 1999), Springs Beneath, 2024. Oil, acrylic, gouache, pumice stone on canvas, 84 x 48 in.

Francisco Goya - Boy Staring at an Apparition, (1824–25)

Shut your eyes and think of somewhere.

Hunt Slonem (American, 1951), Untitled, 2016. Oil on panel, 10 x 7 3/4 in

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

Rachel Howard (British, 1969), Black Dog, 2007. Household gloss and acrylic on canvas, 31 x 43.5 cm.

Christoph Niemann, The New Yorker

lets fly with mama

ph. Brooke DiDonato, It hurt a little but everything does

Embroidered shirt by Tomoko Ogawa Made using freehand sewing 

Lost horizon, Carolyn Marks Blackwood (because)