hungry ouroboros

Sandra Cisneros, “Dulzura,” Loose Woman: Poems (via lifeinpoetry)

I don’t have a source. I rely on lots of scanning, scanning that is itself shaped by a career spent reading.

A few friends from university and I hung out over a barbecue this afternoon (hosted at a friend’s house). It’s been a very rainy and windy day, so we set up the grill in a shaded area of the porch. Afterwards we held a Skype birthday party for a friend who’s spending the summer in Johannesburg. Ombre chocolate cake included but no candles – the irony, of course, is that the birthday girl couldn’t have any.

Currently living and working in the idyllic town of Urtijëi, Italy, sculptor Willy Verginer shares a closeness with his environment in both technique and concept. His surreal wooden sculptures are carved from a single linden tree trunk with incredible precision and detail. Although their features are classical, Verginer paints bold stripes of color across his figures and poses them in awkward positions, making them completely contemporary. Previously covered here, he’s often paired his figures of women, men, and young children with other animals and objects that don’t fit together. His most recent pieces, which are on currently view at Galerie Van Campen & Rochtus in Belgium, pairs them with oil barrels.

A few friends from university and I hung out over a barbecue this afternoon (hosted at a friend’s house). It’s been a very rainy and windy day, so we set up the grill in a shaded area of the porch. Afterwards we held a Skype birthday party for a friend who’s spending the summer in Johannesburg. Ombre chocolate cake included but no candles – the irony, of course, is that the birthday girl couldn’t have any.

Bees are our friends. 

Wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets exist for literally no other reason than to destroy your happiness.