This is the picture my girlfriend put on my birthday party (Facebook) invite. She knows me too well.

This is the picture my girlfriend put on my birthday party (Facebook) invite. She knows me too well.

brain-food:

Tom & James Draw is the beau­ti­ful col­lab­o­ra­tive art project between James Gulliver Hancock and his brother Tom, who was born with Down’s Syndrome. Their work is gor­geous — lay­ered, col­or­ful and fas­ci­nat­ing. Here’s more:

Their col­lab­o­ra­tion is unique as they are shar­ing expe­ri­ences between the out­sider and “insider” art world. James iden­ti­fies with Toms abstract use of visual cod­ing and Tom builds around James’ skilled and con­fi­dent mark mak­ing. Tom relaxes James’ tech­ni­cal obses­sions, and James enables Tom’s con­cen­tra­tion and play­ful mark­mak­ing. Together they make worlds of expe­ri­ence, encom­pass­ing peo­ple around them and their actions, ani­mals, plants, engines, and some­times hilar­i­ous nods to the human expe­ri­ence and perception.

Both of them are inter­ested in obses­sion, both within mark mak­ing and the role obses­sion plays with per­cep­tion and life in general.

(via artbear)

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How vain I find the debate that opposes the paradoxical Freudian formula ‘dreams are the guardians of sleep’ and the commonsense notion that ‘sleep is the guardian of dreams.’

How I refuse to see in sleep an anticipation of death. On the contrary I celebrate Hypnos. I make him into a god who wakes us up and who makes us present in life.
Hypnos, my beloved, would that you never forget me! says the sleeper.

Jean-Bertrand Pontalis