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Evening sketch 26/09/18.

Nándor Baránay - Balance, 1936

Louise Bourgeois in her 90s

Saoirse Ronan, photographed by Jamie Hawkesworth for Vogue, Aug 2018.

In her memoir Just Kids, Patti Smith details her intense relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in which they struggle to become artists in New York City. They lived together at the Hotel Chelsea – home to numerous writers, musicians, actors and artists. Patti supported Robert by working in bookstores, he soon flourished as a photographer and encouraged her to pursue visual art. As a writer, Patti eventually turned her poems into songwriting. For the cover of her debut album, Horses (1975), Patti used a portrait Robert took. Once Robert came out as a gay man their intimate relationship ended but they remained friends until his death from HIV/AIDS in 1989.

“Bouquet of Flowers” drawn by Andy Warhol in 1956.

Her daily routine here was marked by her reverence for simple rituals and an inner clarity that allowed her to be fully present in each moment. She would rise early and take a long walk before breakfast, accompanied by her dogs. After breakfast, she would venture back into the desert for a day of painting, often using her Model A Ford as a portable studio. Upon returning home, she would take an evening walk before dinner. The lasting impression of O'Keeffe’s legendary life and art, and the Ghost Ranch home that stood at its center, is that of a woman completely at ease with the natural world and with herself. 

— Mary Gordon, Joan of Arc (via wheredoesthehoneyflow)

— Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review 

Nicole Atieno  /  Greg Lin Jiajie

— Simone Weil, “Gravity and Grace” (via misswallflower)

William Eggleston Untitled, Memphis, Tennessee, 1974 (Karen Chatham and Lesa Aldridge)

Planet Earth II