“At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,399 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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“Fuck green card! I don’t even want to be an American. The trains are so slow and I never know how much to tip.”
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Curtain call at Waitress -
“Arriving to my hotel that night, I was terribly impressed. As much as art was introducing me to new realms of thinking and seeing, it also really seemed to be getting me places. Over 30 years later, and after editing my first recorded conversation with the woman who has since become the grande dame of art collecting, I now realize that it must have felt the same for Ingvild Goetz. The journeys, the encounters, the stimulation she had enjoyed—talking about all this now she emanated a deep gratefulness. Even opening a public museum in one’s front yard is something she could still recommend. And why not? ‘Honestly,’ she says in our interview from page 190, ‘in all the years since, not a single guest has misbehaved.’”
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“So many of us will accept adoration even if it’s not about us, even if it’s only about the perception of us. Or some service we provide. We are happy to be cast in other people’s plays so long as we’re given a role.”
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Curtain call at The Light in the Piazza -
“Is this the bar for horses or have I come to the wrong place?”
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Curtain call at Jaja’s African Hair Braiding -
Curtain call at Kimberly Akimbo -
“It’s just a real gentle moment. I’m here by myself and I don’t mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.”
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“As long as they keep plying me with enough booze to kill a small show pony, I’ll be fine.”
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Wienczyslawa Barczewska, Madame de Jurjewicz, 1860 
Soga Shōhaku, Four Sages of Mount Shang, 1768 
Christ in Majesty with Symbols of the Four Evangelists, 12th century -
“Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.”
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“Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We’ll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.”
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Sara Cwynar, Alphabet, 2025 -
“In the Internet, there is a fountain of youth into which at first you drunkenly plunge your face, and then in the dawn light you see your reflection, battered by the years.”
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Kylie Minogue performs “Confide in Me” -
“Reality is something you rise above.”
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“The thing that makes life interesting is that it ends. The thing that makes love worthwhile is that it’s all we’ve got.”
