21 year old college student in California. This is basically my brain dumped out for you all to enjoy :)

 

tripudios:

When you first set eyes on Japan-born, Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota’s work, you aren’t sure if you’re looking at an installation or a dark charcoal illustration. Though the piece echoes sketch-like imagery, it is in fact an installation piece involving a burnt piano in a room ravaged by black wool. The work known as In Silence is inspired by Shiota’s own traumatic memories as a child, having witnessed her neighbor’s house burn down. The charred piano is a direct memory of her neighbor’s grand piano blazed up in smoke.

There is a melancholic aura that hovers throughout the incinerated room filled with singed furniture. The miles of thread woven in, around, and through each item within the space adds a feeling of entrapment. The way it engulfs the room’s furnishings encapsulates the destructive and overwhelming nature of flames that have possessed one’s material properties.

Great Quotes:

Shakespeare: "Never play with the feelings of others because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime.

Napoleon: "The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.

Einstein: "I am thankful to all those who said NO to me, because of them I did it myself"

Mahatma Gandhi: "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"

Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

So This Sucks…

Birthdays for me are a time to reflect on how my life has changed from a year ago. Usually, this turns out to be a positive thing, but not this year. So much has changed (and not for the better): I am single, I had a falling out with a best friend which has resulted in us no longer being friends, I am jobless and have my parents and everyone around me yelling at me to get a job, and my college years (which are considered by some to be one’s best years) are now behind me. To add to all that, I have had an emotional breakdown in which I realized that I do so much for all my friends and I try really hard to make their birthdays special. When it comes to my birthday, no one is around. They all ask me what I am planning for my birthday, but just once I want someone to plan something and tell me what I’m doing. I even waited until midnight to see who would call me first. No one. I feel guilty for feeling this way, but I never ask for anything and I feel like I should be allowed to at least one day out of the year. Anyway… Happy Birthday to me.