unwise love is the truest love

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

This photograph was made on a commercial assignment for IBM.

lynette yiadom-boakye, "columbidae," 2022, charcoal on paper

Leonard Cohen

Weegee, Lovers, Palace Theater, New York City, 1945

Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Letter written to his sister Ludmila, 1905

March 24, 1974 Anne Sexton, from Complete Poems

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy.

genuinely insanity evoking

Layla Al-Attar, Iraqi artist and painter, killed by a U.S. missile attack on Baghdad in 1993.

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"Solivagant". Haddy Ceesay by Angela Djekic for Sicky Magazine

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

in the mood for love polaroids

George Rodger