Marina Tsetaeva Trans By Ilya Kaminsky

the only thing “dark” about “academia” are the thoughts i have when i see my assignments piling up

Katharine Hepburn in a photo shoot from Sylvia Scarlett, by Ernest Bachrach.

Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Jill Jarrell, from A Personal Anthology; “To an Old Poet,” (x)

–Mary Oliver

So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.