"I am a mixture."

- Frida Kahlo.

mixture
late middle english
from latin

how many parts
can make you
up.

“starting over--the idea--is a lot like the idea of mental health.
(“when you woke up, was it there?”)”
        -Kate Greenstreet

"Il faut dépasser le but pour l'atteindre."

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

"One must go beyond their goals in order to achieve them."

"we cannot simply sit & stare at our wounds forever. we must stand up & move on to the next action."

-haruki murakami

"it's never too late to be what you might have been"

-george eliot

if your nerve, deny you-
go above your nerve-


-emily dickinson.

on photographs

"One moment, in all of history, was captured, but the moments before and after it disappeared into the onrush of time; only that selected moment itself was privileged, saved, for no other reason that its having been picked out by the camera's eye."

-teju cole, open city

"The scent of spikenard
is nice. It smells of
weird responsibility."

-Mary Ruefle, Spikenard. 

"New music: new listening. Not an attempt to understand something that is being said, for, if something were being said, the sounds would be given the shapes of words. Just an attention to the activity of sounds."

-John Cage

"but he is the peripheral sort
and not at the center of anything."


-mary ruefle, lapland

"He had these big sharp claws on his hooves, and sometimes he'd put one up on me. I understood it as the part of our mind where art comes from. And I hoped he wouldn't scratch me with them, because that would really hurt."

-kate greenstreet, young tambling. 

flesh

"Cooked, the meat will blacken, grow dark in the night like a bruise."

-claire donato, burial

the moon

"after all, it has been proved, using highly sensitive equipment, that even a cup of tea is subject to lunar tides."

-mary ruefle 

il n'ya pas d'amour, 
que des preuves d'amour

-jean cocteau

love letter, 2009

art

"a work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. there is no such thing as bad art."

-Muriel Rukeyser

experimental

learning adobe illustrator.

why not see my design portfolio?

"the work that a poem does is transfer of human energy, and I think human energy may be defined as consciousness, the capacity to make change in existing conditions."

-muriel rukeyser

love quotes

But I love you, sir:
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.
-Ursula Le Guin. 

summer sky

via moi (@natalie_raymond) on instagram

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

-Kahlil Gibran

 

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

-Otomo No Yakamochi

 

(feeling nostalgic...)

"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst." - Frida Kahlo

I think this picture is very cool if a bit cheesy. 

& I totally get you re: accidents gurl... totally.