Einsturzende Neubauten

A Robert Smith piece I made to be printed on a t-shirt. A birthday gift for a friend.

📸: Valerie Phillips

Edit after George Ellery Hale (Rijksmuseum) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

I still don't know If fighting against something Is the same thing As fighting for anything

- Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

I think the most fundamental thing you can do to be a decent human being is to understand and respect the fact that not everyone feels and thinks in the same way that you do.

“A Day for Destroying Things” by Katy Batsel

You had to let go of something great Of something that could have been Worth the wait But I dislike For you have always been right That we did need this break Since realizations have come to the surface That we deserve not to tolerate

It was indeed for the best of us. One should not sacrifice their dreams and lean too much on uncertainty. The other should not let their uncertainty be molded, sacrificed as a pleaser, or become too influenced into the dreamer’s dreams. None deserves the extent of pain. So, beloved, may you find a person whose dreams align with yours and form a bond so covalent that it won’t ever equate to the pang of our heartbreak. I will be rooting and cheering for you in the tiny corner of your heart, mind, body, and soul. For our mere platonic love is a rarity—a gift. Perhaps, in due time, when our hearts mend and stop the search of our lost potentials—our could’ve been’s—and our hearts learn selflessly nothing but the true happiness of one another, then our friendship can be restored.

Because I would love to just have a conversation with you about existence and other insane topics that late poets have talked about.

— The Final Apology and the Chance of Reconciliation

Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? How can it be that… who I am didn’t exist before I came to be, and that, someday… who I am will no longer be…?

WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) — dir. Wim Wenders

Sergey Shigolev- Morning Stars, 1928.