“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.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,374 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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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.”
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Curtain call at Smash -
“Art writing helps us to understand art which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and challenges in equal measure.”
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John Wilson, Study for the Young Americans, 1973 -
Vincent van Gogh, The Baby Marcelle Roulin, 1888
