victoriousvocabulary:

BÊTE NOIRE

[noun]

1. French: literally, “black beast”.

2. something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear; something to be avoided.

3. a detested person.

[Martynas Pavilonis]

enochliew:

Hemlock 82 by Bryan Nash Gill

Ink is rolled out and a piece of handcrafted paper is placed over the top, then it is imprinted by pressing with his fingertips.

danceabletragedy:

by  Henrietta Harris

Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder

 My eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new

enochliew:

Tree by Myoung Ho Lee

Simple in concept, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature.

2headedsnake:

Howell Golson