The gleaners
Why is it the most necessary members of society often hold the lowest rung? Why are some of us too high and mighty to sweep the streets? Worth pondering.
Danisah’s Book of Good News
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Stone cutters and masons are the republic… for 9.52€ the hour
Dear reader, Peace is paradoxical. Find it in one place and it surfaces elsewhere as its opposite — a low-grade disquiet you can't quite locate, like a sound you stop hearing only when it stops. April arrived. I removed my socks and shoes, hitched the skirt up, and waded
The whole point (?)
Toro as a Christ figure
If I were to become a matador, at the end of the spectacle, the arena doors would be locked shut. Every spectator would be given a plate and a fork. There would be one narrow exit. Over the door would hang a plaque reading 'He died for our sins.
Painting: Christ in the house of his father
This painting was branded onto my retinas almost seven years ago now. A painting so right it's almost wrong. In the carpenter's workshop, we find Joseph tending to his son — inspecting the wound, the premonition written in the palm of the child who would become the
WWJD?
Painting: truth coming out of her well
The naked truth. There she is. You didn't have to look so hard. A fury too pure that her nakedness becomes meaningless. Unashamed in substance because she's living through her word. This is a woman's painting. I feel many people struggle to comprehend rage
An experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
2019 The worst year of my life. Before covid. I was aimless, wandering the halls of the British Gallery sometime in October, when I saw it. The painting is so sombre it presents itself as a void — something you notice peripherally before you've decided to look. Unlike other
My observations on the French
French men are made to have their hearts broken. And French women are made to break them. It's a very specific and weirdly cruel mating ritual. One I simply cannot perform. Because I wasn't born French. I was born British. Brits break hearts by accident and
(French) De rien
Liberté Égalité Fraternité autor du table à manger De Rien Hôtesse Représentant Évêque Invitée Banquier Sdf (M. DeNiro / De Rien) Chris (L'hôte se tourne vers l'invité à sa droite.)Hôte – Alors, vous savez déjà pour qui vous allez voter ? Représentant – Oui, je vote pour mon parti.
What a joke…
A Preacher, A judge, and a hypocrite walk into a bar... The bartender says ‘are you all friends?’ Preacher. I keep the flock close Judge. Only after 5 ‘o’clock Hypocrite. I’m there when they need me The bartender asks ‘Are these your colleagues then?’ The preacher says ‘this
An economist wearing a bear skin.
"Oh this old thing? I got it from -ASOS-Made by the hands of a Turkish 12 year old...That’s why the stitching is so fine."