Elaine Castillo, America Is Not The Heart
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Ijeoma Umebinyuo, ‘Confessions’, Questions for Ada
Mohamad Hafez, Baggage series
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Anne Carson, ‘The Glass Essay’, Glass, Irony, and God
Margaret Atwood, ‘November’, You Are Happy
Richard Siken, ‘Boot Theory’, Crush
Egyptian mosaic glass fragmentary bars and inlays, 3rd century BCE-1st century AD
audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore
watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort
notes of Twin Peaks x
Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter & Emma Corrin as Anna Harding
NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers
"My heart is lost without my Thomas."
Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter & Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter
NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers
it feels like pain. like the inside of my body is on fire. and it's angry, and violent…. and bright.
LUKAS CAGE as PATRICK & HARVEY GUILLÉN as ELI
COMPANION (2025) dir. Drew Hancock