Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
(Source: floatwithme)
palace of tears, nelly agassi, 2002
at the center of the exhibition space stands a young woman, wearing a simple skin-colored dress; hundreds of strips made of similar fabric are suspended from various points on the four walls surrounding her. some trail on the floor, reaching her feet, others look as though they are already, somehow, connected to her dress. she bends, picks up a strip of fabric from the floor, sews it onto her dress, and so on and so forth. strip after strip, hour in hour out, in a cyclical, sequential act, until no more fabric strips remain on the floor, and she appears inseparably connected to the walls of the exhibition space.
(via fddsfasdffa)
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.
—Brian Eno (via cavetocanvas)
(Source: jessiethatcher, via fleursdansmescheveux)
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your own worst enemy. The good news is, we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.
—Laurie Helgoe (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
—Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via approachingsignificance)
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glitch Textiles presents: Binary Blankets
A collection of blankets aimed at making visible the hidden data structures that give shape to everyday life. The materiality of our digital age is composed of binary data encoded on electronic devices and transmitted through the airwaves on invisible frequencies of light. As an alternative to the screen, Binary Blankets literally gives you a way to experience the fabric of this otherwise invisible and intangible side of our digital world.
This initial collection features designs from a handful of binary files from programs such as Microsoft Word, iTunes, Google Chrome, and Mac OSX.
(via oxane)
