Undercover A/W 2006 ph. Yasutomo Ebisu via dampmags

SAMUEL GUÌ YANG SHANGHAI SS25

"All human love is a dramatic enactment of the wild, reckless, unquenchable, undrainable love that powers the universe. If death is everywhere and inescapable, then so is love, if we but knew it. We can begin to know it through each other. The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love’s nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love’s fire.

So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."

— Jeanette Winterson, from The PowerBook (via voulezou)

Shaman belt,Sahalin

Let’s open those neural floodgates

Junya Watanabe A/W 2006 Womenswear Collection

“Ten seconds of spontaneous breathing, gentle and deep, is enough to release a kind of vibrating stream of warmth into your brain and sometimes into your whole body.

Next, you will discover that true presence brings you pleasure incommensurate with events. The most banal thing—cup of tea, a few steps, opening a door, glance at the sky- can be enough to make you happy during the time you are present and well after.

You will discover that if you can find such pleasure in presence, then your joy no longer depends on exceptional circumstances waited for in a state of neurotic tension but on simple reality, as it presents itself to you from moment to moment. In this way you will gain immense autonomy from the intense pleasures that you once needed in order to be satisfied.

It will very quickly follow from there that your quest and your expectations will no longer be focused on hypothetical or uncertain objects but on whatever your experience reveals to you about everyday ordinariness.

You will discover that nothing or no one can take this pleasure away from you. Again, your independence will increase.

You will discover that your body and your mind love this communication so much that they will unite and ask you for more of it. The habitual schism between the body and mind will progressively subside.

You will perceive that with presence to the world, there is no ego, and therefore no separation, no duality. The panic about being nothing that swells in the back of your mind will then subside, leaving room for you to experience that to be nothing is to enter into totality, and that in this naked awareness you are the world.”

Odier.

Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

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Jonathan Allen - Whiplash 00000000 (acrylic on canvas), 2020

— Brian Eno (via echymosis)

Anish Kapoor - History, 2007

Jewelry by Parts of Four