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But it feels like a Monday. This new year of the moon brings forth a kind of ends-and-beginnings that go in medias res: in the middle of things where changes are all slow and sudden and still. I think I woke up today in a miraculous wakefulness, given that I hadn’t much sleep the night before and yet the need for slumber stay lying just under my eyes. My legs could walk and my hands could grind coffee beans and touch the metal where water boiled instead. I could feel both strength and the sharp pain of losing grip as I pick up the hand grinder that had fallen off of my injured hand.
It is interesting to me how brokenness can make one more aware of advantages, both of the past (before injury) and of the present (despite and because of said injury). There is also a certain kind of shame that comes with getting up only because the sun had risen and there are dogs to walk outside—why couldn’t I go ahead of the sun and wake her up instead? Powerlessness in the rabbit hole of reactivity.
And yet maybe the one and the sun are not much different from the other, only that too much pseudo-self-consciousness makes it seem like there are so many more individuals than just a whole. Would it be freeing to get rid of things that had been burdening the back and shoulders for so long now? Yes, but eventually more things will pile up because that is what happens in a standing-up and walking-through. If one thinks that the heavy crossed dragged through the forest is just another branch of the trees abound, just like how the burning rays are of the same material as red blood cells surrounded by caffeine, then maybe one can walk a little lighter even if it is only lighter in thought; that the mind is the sole sovereign organ may be enough for a lifetime.
Gallery update: ‘Dream Boat Ride’
acrylic on canvas paper
260 x 190 mm
original for sale
New display on the e-gallery is also a new original artwork for sale on café gyü! While the physical location of my coffeehouse is still underworks, I am preparing my coffee recipes, cold summer dreams, and paintings for sale. You can message me on Instagram or shoot me an e-mail if you’re interested on any of my available works.
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Today’s feature:
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The Darkroom has been updated with new photographs ready for printing as well! Here is this Wednesday’s feature from the latest set:
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