forest cities

“I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.”

Tamsin Abbott, glass artist - Night of the Comet 2014

Bob Eggleton

the rectangular box with overhanging cover and canted corners, decorated in iroe togidashi, with scattered peacock feathers on a black ground decorated in iroe togidashi, hiramaki-e and nashiji, the underside of the cover decorated with a crane and a pine tree in a roundel, inset into a nashiji ground, the fitted interior with a tray decorated with scattered feathers, inkstone with fundame ground and feathers in hiramaki-e, the silver waterdropper with a single feather 24 cm, 9 1/2  in.

The Black Cat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1934

Daria Gerasimova

Cinéastes de notre temps: Jean Renoir le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif", (1967), Jacques Rivette

I grew up listening and dancing to Aretha Franklin and there was never a time when that amazing voice did not move me. So many memories today at the news of her death, but most of all I’m feeling extremely grateful to have lived at the same time as this greatest of singers. She opened her mouth and her soul poured out. She was not stingy;  she gave us everything she had.

anne bachelier

Karel Thole

Harriet Andersson