"There are betrayals in my life that I have known at the very moment were betrayals: this was one of them. There are other betrayals committed so repeatedly, so mundanely, that they leave no memory trace behind, only a growing residue of misery, of dull, accreted self-hatred. Often these take the form not of words but of silence… Silence and then amnesia."

adrienne rich, “split at the root” (via beneathbixbybridge)

i remember everything about the first time i read this (1994). 

elanormcinerney:

mail (Taken with instagram)

this is exactly what i need in my life right now. saw it on tumblr, bought it, going to sleep. 

redboldface:

Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective
University of Missouri Press, 1989.
“To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one.”
$400

i don’t know why it never occurred to me that this is a book that one could buy. there’s one for $225 on amazon and a signed first edition that is $1350. oh, well.  

(hifu)

hannah wilke, from intra-venus triptych (“marilyn monroe”), 1992-93 

there was a dead barbie on the street last night and no one seemed to care. 

winesburgohio:

Adele Bertei is writing a memoir.

i would read this right now. 

josh and i went to tia pol for lunch then wandered around galleries for a few hours. we also went to printed matter where we found this; women & performance is doing a special issue on born in flames. josh bought a beautiful felix gonzalez-torres book. then we walked along the high line, which i think i hadn’t done since that time my MA year. it was even more beautiful than i remembered. we sat on a bench and josh asked me why i don’t keep a journal instead of tumblring and i had a few reasons but the main one was unpredictability and that if i just kept a journal nothing would ever happen, which he said he understood. then he told me to read susan buck-morss’ the dialectics of seeing.  

sherrie levine, green mirror 1-6, 2012 

josh was like “what?!” and i was like “sherrie levine is the most hilarious, look at what we are looking at.” he agreed. sherrie levine is, like, so funny, and also my hero. 

tracey emin, trust me, 2011

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