rookiemag:
conversationparade:
[step 1] open your mouth as wide as possible. make sure to stick out your tongue as far as you can, too, since kisses are like, 90% that thing

[step 2] find someone to kiss. you will know they want to kiss because their tongue will also be extended at full length

[step 3] move in for the kill

It’s just science.
-Anna
I am going to print this diagram out and carry it with me at all times.
@14 hours ago with 19596 notes
India Ink on Wood Panel, 12” x 12”
When I was a little girl, my aunt told me a story which she later said was called Throwing The Rock. She told me that one day there was a man, in the water, drowning. He was flailing about, struggling to stay afloat. And people went out to rescue him. They called out to him, “Grab my hand. I’ll pull you safety. Grab my hand.” The man said he couldn’t. The people tried again. He said he couldn’t. Then the people noticed he was clutching a rock in his hands. They shouted at him to drop it, to take their hand, and climb aboard. The man cried, and again said he couldn’t. “It’s the only thing I have left,” he said. “If I let go, then I will have nothing.” But it’s killing you, they said. You’re holding onto something that is killing you. The man continued to struggle, before lowering his rock, and then he let go.
I hadn’t heard this story in years, it had never even been mentioned since. But as I struggled with my concentration and creating a collection meaningful artworks, I remembered. It struck me how many of my other works dealt with this same struggle and I never connected the dots. Here, it’s dealing with this need to hold on and remember grief, almost like instinct, like survivor’s guilt.
@1 day ago with 2 notes
#mine mine mine #ap art #concentrations #art