Achievement unlocked: discovered piece of media at exact right time in your life to experience maximum peak emotional impact and infatuation
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]
— Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “The Perjured City.”
subtle intimacy is so soft. knowing someone’s routine and slowly becoming a part of it. memorising favourite teas and soups and drink orders. good morning and good night texts and messy paragraphs of love written half asleep. nicknames only you know. just small things that say “look how dear you are to me.”
Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of a Young Lady Anna Meyer, Ca 1526
Carol Kane, 1976
An agency memo on the verso of the first photograph reads:
You really expect me to use these?
Robyn + pisces venus + blue
