Lost Sea-glass

"... You're what??"

(EDIT: Muting notifications on this!)

wilson always steels himself around someone else during an intense emotional moment, like seeing him in this state is some horrible transgression and embarrassment.

but it only takes a fragment of attention/acknowledgment to send him over the edge like the flip of a switch. these are blink-and-you-miss-it expressions.

then he hides his face away from the other person & away from the audience to muffle the look and the sound of him crying. i was really struck by this acting choice in 4x16.

and what's extra interesting about these 2 parallels though is the foregrounding. cuddy and wilson share the frame both visually and physically:

she's open to him and welcomes his grief because she can understand and process it. they coalesce after making a hard, emotional decision.

house tries to do this is his own special + a little bit sadistic sort of way, but he can't bridge the physical or visual divide. in every shot of them in the car, only wilson or only house are highlighted in the foreground.

I changed up Todd's design a little!

spent 4 hours losing my mind over this drawing but here he is

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin