Considered now to be one of the greatest milliners and hat-makers in the world, the hats David Shilling designed for his mother Gertrude to be worn at Royal Ascot in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were anywhere from over the top, to avant-garde, to just plain insane! See more here…
also, i keep thinking about that artist who lost an arm and she made self-portraits and of course they depicted herself without an arm, and people were like why do you keep marking art about the loss of your arm, and she was like i don’t. i’m making art about myself and i only have one arm.
while a lot of people write poetry about their own pain, sometimes personal poetry is just a reflection of who they are, and who they are is shaped by traumatic events and other things that you may find upsetting.
I got this nifty vietnamese fire pit bbq thing for my back porch, ive been having fires everyday. At night when i sleep with my bedroom window open for the fresh air, the wind picks up the burnt wood and ember smells and they waft into my dreams. In the mornings the air is so crisp with it that it snaps my senses awake to the sounds of birds and chickens in my backyard.
