mono no aware

Pearl, Water Colors, Early 1960s - Ph. James Bidgood

mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being

Americans who say they don’t have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isn’t just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, it’s constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because that’s just “normal” to your daily life. No one has no culture just because they’re not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.

The iceberg concept of culture: only 10% of what most people immediately think of as their culture is above the surface, and the deeper you go, the more emotional depth it gets.

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

Field to Fabric: Takahiro Hasegawa’s Ode to Linen in ‘One Field, One T-shirt’

Julia Condon, Mobile of the Light among the Shadows

Red Flower, Sequim WA 2016

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“40 Layers” -2013

Julian Stanczak, Lineal Formation, Blue, 1989

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