Allison Katz: While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands

Aromatherapy I

“I want to give women an artificial perfume. Yes, I really do mean artificial, something synthetic, that has been made. I don't want a flower, I want a perfume that is a paradox, a composition." (Chanel, on her intention when creating No. 5)

How do you say nose in Spanish?

Hmm… No se.

Vertigo

2020 is a number as much as a state of mind. L O O K at how 2 0 2 0 contains within itself a pair of looking glasses, spectacles, two eyes, the portal x 2. Concave or convex, we are mirrored by the number as it looks back: “What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

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Blake’s depiction of Puck (1786) helped define the look of fairies today. Previously, they existed along a shape-shifting spectrum, with more to watch out for. The size of a thumb, the size of a small child, taking over the body of your neighbour at a relative’s funeral, popping up at a crossroad to guide you in the wrong direction, etc.

Annie and Eddy

As soon as the lockdown door bolted, and social distancing became de facto, I thought about how well painting conforms to not-touching. Noli Me Tangere – Do Not (Desire To) Touch Me. There is a tradition of painting the episode when Jesus (who has just resurrected) tells Mary, who thinks he’s the gardener, not to touch him. Stay back: motif, and subtext. Painting as the ultimate hands-off haptic feast. Cixous: “Eyes are miraculous hands” and “The world is given to her in the hand of her eyes” and “Eyes are lips on the lips of God.”

Cancerian

Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny for the Week of March 25th, 2021

"While he was alive, Cancerian author Franz Kafka burned 90% of everything he wrote. Was his attitude toward his creations caused by the self-doubt that so many of us Cancerians are shadowed by? Was he, like a lot of us Crabs, excessively shy about sharing personal details from his life? In accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to at least temporarily transcend any Kafka-like tendencies you have. It's time to shine brightly and boldly as you summon your full powers of self-expression."

 Study for The Cockfather

Eros, egg of the world, on repeat

The card with no name

The card with no name (Card 13) cuts the past… is coping with change… highlights the essential… puts things in perspective… opens a new path…

Ganapati

The brain is the largest and most important sex organ