Details, Simone Rocha Spring 2021 Rtw

Structural violence creates lopsided structures of the imagination. Those on the bottom of the heap have to spend a great deal of imaginative energy trying to understand the social dynamics that surround them—including having to imagine perspectives of those on the top—while the latter wander about largely oblivious to much of what is going on around them. That is, the powerless not only end up doing most of the actual, physical labor that is required to keep society running, they also do most the interpretive labor as well.

— David Graeber, Dead Zones of the Imagination

Photographed by Emmie America for Aleï Journal Fall/Winter 2018

Cy Twombly by Bruce Weber

Criss Canning (Australian, b. 1947), Waratah, 2019. Oil on board, 55 x 50 cm.

Kazimierz Sichulski (Polish, 1879-1942), Białe maki [White Poppies], 1920. Watercolour, mixed media, and pastel on paper, 80 x 62 cm.

marvin gaye, 1973, topanga canyon home

The Italians have a word for the store of poems you have in your head: a gazofilacio […] in its original language it actually means a treasure chamber of the mind. The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life. And unlike paintings, sculptures or passages of great music, they do not outstrip the scope of memory, but are the actual thing, incarnate.

Clive James, ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life,’ The Guardian (26 September 2020)

Fredrik Paulsen :: Mikado

"The Girl in a Room", 2006 by Phoebe Rudomino