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Roberto Sanesi, [Europe: A Prophecy e altre versioni giovanili da W. Blake], 1979 [Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Museion, Bolzano-Bozen. Beni culturali in Alto Adige, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige. Photo: Ludwig Thalheimer / Lupe]

Silviu & Irina Székely

Johannes Veldhuizen, The tree people, Korowai, 1986.

“Houses of Irian Jaya’s Kombai and Korowai people are built as high as 150 feet for a reason: to see the birds and the mountains and to keep sorcerers from climbing their stairs. Also, the Korowai live in treehouses because when there is a fight with another clan in the jungle clearing, the young, old and women can quickly escape. It’s also breezier that high up.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpvLVDgBW8/?igshid=1pojzq5alskb

marvin gaye, 1973, topanga canyon home

wxmatija:matija gabrilo, 2021 https://ift.tt/2Tjizo3 -> Telegram Design Bot

Cy Twombly by Bruce Weber

Shimabuku

When women writers of my generation speak in awed tones of Didion’s “style,” I don’t think it’s the shift dresses or the sunglasses, the cigarettes or commas or even the em dashes that we revere, even though all those things were fabulous. It was the authority. The authority of tone. There is much in Didion one might disagree with personally, politically, aesthetically. I will never love the Doors. But I remain grateful for the day I picked up “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and realized that a woman could speak without hedging her bets, without hemming and hawing, without making nice, without poeticisms, without sounding pleasant or sweet, without deference, and even without doubt. It must be hard for a young woman today to imagine the sheer scope of things that women of my generation feared women couldn’t do—but, believe me, writing with authority was one of them. You wanted to believe it. You needed proof. And not Victorian proof. Didion—like her contemporary Toni Morrison—became Exhibit A. Uniquely, she could be kept upon your person, like a flick knife, stuffed in a back pocket, the books being so slim and portable. She gave you confidence. Shored you up.

—Zadie Smith on Joan Didion

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/joan-didion-and-the-opposite-of-magical-thinking