Jen Mazza (American, B. 1972, Washington DC, USA) - Peripety (5), 2008 From Peripety Project, Paintings:

-It’s not the red of which we bleed- 

  watercolour on paper, 2019

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“Lat be thy wepyng and thi drerynesse, And lat us lissen wo with oother speche; So may thy woful tme seme lesse.”

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Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (Norton Critical Editions)

“Leave your anguish, leave your sighs, and mitigate your sorrow by talking, becase doing this makes suffering pass…”

Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato (Norton Critical Editions)

cursed land

“The things which the child loves remains in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remember those places regardless of time and place.”

— Kahlil Gibran, letter to Nakhli Gibran, 15 March 1908, Kahlil Gibran: A Self Portrait, ed. 7 transl. Anthony R. Ferris (Citadel, 1959)

An illiterate Indian soldier of the 7th (Meerut) Division, is making a thumb impression on the pay sheet instead of signing his name for his pay. 1918

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”

— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

July 2018 SK, Canada

"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid