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                         Objects of Desire (Japanese Screens and Panels)

1. Paulownias and Chrysanthemums, late 1700s-early 1800s Sakai Hoitsu (Japanese, 1761-1828) two-fold screen; ink and color on gilded paper

2.  Detail of heron. Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer. Edo period (latter half of 17th century).Kano Eino

3.  Detail. Trees. Master of the I’nen Seal (1600–30), Sōtatsu school. Japan, mid-17th century

4. Irises. Ogata Korin. Right of two six-section folding screens (byōbu). Ink and color on paper with gold leaf background. Located at the Nezu Art Museum, Tokyo

5. Detail. 伝三谷等宿筆 松と椿に鷹・柳と椿に小禽図屏風 Pine and Camellia with Hawks and Willow and Camellia with Small Birds. Attributed to Mitani Tōshuku (Japanese, 1577–1654). Edo period. 17th century

6.  Detail. Flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, etc. Japanese folding Screen (six-panel), one of a pair. Edo period, 18th-19th century. Color, gesso, and gold on paper.

7. “Trailing vines” Japanese 6 panel screen, Edo period (1603-1868)

8. Japanese Screen, Peacock and Peahen, Meiji Era, circa 1900

9. Early 19th, Japanese Folding Screen with Birds and Plum Trees, Edo period

10.  Pomegranate and small birds Moriyama Kouho (b.1883) Late Meiji/early Taisho era, circa 1910. Two-panel Japanese Screen. Ink, gofun and pigment on silk and gold leaf

Questions

Why do you think the only value you hold is what you can or can't do?

Why do you think the only value you hold is what you can or can't give me?

Why do you think you're less?

Why do you think you're not good enough?

Why do you think these things?

Why do you feel this way?

Who did this to you?

Was it me?

Was it them?

What can I do to help you?

What can I do to support you?

What can I do to fix this?

I think we ought to live happily ever after. 💕

STUDIO GHIBLI + VALENTINES DAY

No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

achilles will be like “i know a spot” then drag your lifeless body around the walls of troy

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here’s a random word generator–whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of