William Henry Pratt / Boris Karloff
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
Yes we did.
—Dorn
Epitaph
SC Lowcountry
—Dorn
"A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive."
From Tender Buttons: Objects by Gertrude Stein
Illustrated by Lisa Congdon
Head over to Brain Pickings to learn more about the collaboration and get a peek at the book.
“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Slow, slow progress.
Coffee Break
David Slone was young and awesome when I met him. Now he’s grown and even more awesome(r).
Always.
—Dorn
Type specimen books smell like knowledge.
Pedal on. Coast when you need to.
“Subtle”, oil on panel, 18 x 24 in, 2013
I sort of fantasize having this really beautiful apartment full of beautiful things, like ceramics and animal skulls and actual silverware, and then I realize how much of a drag it is to move all of it, and then I start fantasizing about having nothing at all. Moving once a year does that to you….
“It is the ability to spot the potential in the product of connecting things that don’t ordinarily go together that marks out the person who is truly creative.”
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
