Incubus - "Wish You Were Here"
Henri Rousseau - "The Sleeping Gypsy" (1897)
From Walt Whitman's "A Song for Occupations"
“…The panes of the windows and all that appears through
them….the going forth in the morning and the aimless
spending of the day;
(What is it that you made money? what is it that you
got what you wanted?)…”
Roxy Music - "Running Wild"
From Walt Whitman's "A Song for Occupations"
“…The light and shade—the curious sense of body and
identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance
devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching
of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees….
and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever
and each acre of surface and space forever…“
Shortstack - "Vietnam War Movie"
From Acts 3:22
“…him shall ye hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say unto you.”
From "Gilead" - Marilynne Robinson
“…I lay there against my father’s side with my head pillowed on his arm, hearing the wind, and feeling a pity that was far too deep to have any particular object. I pitied my mother, who might have to come looking for us and would never, never find us. I pitied the bats and the mice. I pitied the earth and the moon. I pitied the Lord.”
Nate Lowman - "Nobody's Home" (2026)
Thomas Ruff - from "jpegs ny"
"The Song of the Sea" - Emahoy Tsege Mariam
boygenius - $20
Backyard Garden, Chicago
From Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
“…Like her son-in-law they misunderstood her: he delighted in her letters, but he thought that when he had enjoyed the style he had extracted all their richness and intention, missing (as most readers do) the whole purport of literature, which is the notation of the heart.”
Patrick Bringley on Loretta Pettway Quilt - "Lazy Gal Bars" (1965)
Loretta Pettway - Lazy Gal Bars
“…I am moved by the quilt’s geometry and also by its imperfections: the slightly wandering lines; the swift, unfussy stitching; the improvised materials. It has an abundance of art’s most heartening qualities, including diligence and inspiration.”
- Patrick Bringley, from “All The Beauty In the World”
Mardonio Margana - Mother with a Child on Her Back (1933)
Pinturicchio - Virgin Teaching the Christ Child to Read (1490s)
Leonard Cohen - "Night Comes On"
Cavafy - "Aboard the Ship"
It certainly resembles him, this small
pencil likeness of him.
Quickly done, on the deck of the ship:
an enchanting afternoon.
The Ionian Sea all around us.
It resembles him. Still, I remember him as handsomer.
To the point of illness: that’s how sensitive he was,
and it illumined his expression.
Handsomer, he seems to me,
now that my soul recalls him, out of Time.
Out of Time. All these things, they’re very old—
the sketch, and the ship, and the afternoon.