Life, And Nothing More… (1992), Dir. Abbas Kiarostami

JENNY HOLZER, DETAIL FROM LUSTMORD, 1994

Heat Map, Richard Siken

“APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.”

— T. S. Eliot, from “The Wasteland,” in Selected Poems

Mary Oliver, from “To Begin With, the Sweet Grass”, Devotions

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “All Day Long There Is a Bursting”

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

a love letter to myself

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

I need a Swanson in my life

The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this