i’d like to make it clear that being well-read and having dumb bitch energy aren’t mutually exclusive. can i give you an in-depth analysis of an academic article? yeah. am i still a dumb bitch? yeah and proud
essay on the relationship between color and poetry by the poet dorothea lasky, containing poems and musings on how color is chosen and described in the imagination.
series of pieces scattered through poet mary ruefle’s collection my private property detailing the sadnesses of colors. in the book’s acknowledgements section ruefle writes: “in each of the color pieces, if you substitute the word happiness for the word sadness, nothing changes.”
a series of essays on color by the british filmmaker derek jarman, written in the year before his death from aids-related illness. the essays combine history, literature, and the work of color theorists with the author’s memories and emotional experiences. the essay “into the blue” is also the text of jarman’s 1993 film blue.
a fragmented treatise on color by the german philosopher ludwig wittgenstein, focusing especially on the vexing relationship between color and language. like chroma, remarks on color was also written shortly before the author’s death.
a collection of essays from cabinet magazine’s colors column, where each week a contributor is assigned a specific color. a few i like are “red” by maggie nelson (p. 164), “white” by joseph grigley (p. 118), “violet” by daniel handler (p. 106), and “amber” by mark bradley (p. 168).
Listen. Do it for the aesthetic. If you want to fill an entire 20 dollar sketchbook with anatomy drawings fucling do it. If you wanna get lost in the woods and come stumbling home with a bag of dried mushrooms and bones you go goblin dude. You aren’t alive to go to work and hurt!! You’re alive because bumblebees bump into little flowers and dandelions only open up in the sun! You’re alive because cats purr when you pet them and coffee keeps you up all night!! Do everything for the aesthetic!!
