sea moss on sand

Mark Rothko More sketches from his Royal Vernon Line Composition Book 1946/1947 Ink on wove paper Royal: Royal / Writing (watermark) 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (26.0 x 19.1 cm) Collections of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Joseph Rodriguez documented the world outside his taxi during the 70s and 80s.

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“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity… If I want to be secure, that is, protected from the flux of life, I am wanting to be separate from life. Yet it is this very sense of separateness which makes me feel insecure. To be secure means to isolate and fortify the “I,” but it is just the feeling of being an isolated “I” which makes me feel lonely and afraid… To put it still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”

— Alan Watts

Ana Mendieta, Body Tracks, 1974,

still from super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, colour, silent, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York

Mark Rothko, c. 1964, in his studio, East Hampton

Photo Hans Namuth, Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona.

© 1991 Hans Namuth Estate ./ Rothko Family Archives

Artwork © 2023 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society ARS), New York

Happy Birthday, Kaoru Abe (阿部 薫, Abe Kaoru)