i have no object permanence about myself. if i’m not in anyones eye sight i assume i have ceased to be. finding out people remember i exist, think about me, and even talk about me when i’m not actively in front of them is startling news every time it is brought to my attention
Mash
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Illustration from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for Andrew Lang’s The Blue Poetry Book by Lancelot Speed (1891)
Our English word purple comes from Latin purpureus, which comes from Greek porphyra, a noun denoting the purplefish. This sea mollusk, properly the purple limpet or murex, was the source from which all purple and red dyes were obtained in antiquity. But the purplefish had another name in ancient Greek, namely kalchē, and from this word was derived a verb and a metaphor and a problem for translators. The verb kalchainein, “to search for the purplefish,” came to signify profound and troubled emotion: to grow dark with disquiet, to seethe with worries, to harbor dark thoughts, to brood in the deep of one’s mind.
Anne Carson · “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent.” Float (2016)
Feed a man an ouroborus and you’ll feed a man an ouroborus and you’ll feed a man an ouroborus and you’ll
Medea’s Reasons by Salma Deera
This is probably my favorite poem, and a couple of years back, I illustrated it through a series of portraits featuring women from biblical stories, folklore, and mythology. I wanted to revisit the poem and create something that was more simple and focused on the titular heroine.
