Sunday Soundtrack - The Cruellest Month.

Sproutling by Lissy Elle.

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - Here

Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost - The River Rise

The Breeders - Last Splash - Invisible Man

Songs for a rainy April Sunday.

The Cruellest Month.

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

— T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland

Blowing Bubbles Soft & Fine, Joe Sorren.

APRIL is the cruellest mon

April Showers.

Here.

(Karol Hiller).

Rain, rain, go away.

Our Hands Will Eventually Destroy Everything Beautiful; Fumi Nakamura.

In Your Soul Are Infinitely Precious Things That Cannot Be Taken From You.

I Want To Be Your Favorite Hello And Your Hardest Goodbye.

Nothing Matters, We Are The Sweetest Mistakes.

The Nature Speaks In Its Secret Language That Translates Into Shapes.

These amazing artworks by Japanese-born New York-based Fumi Nakamura are created entirely with graphite and coloured pencil - such unusual materials, but such intense and intricate results.

I really love these white-haired weird figures, tangled in flora and fauna; and when you care to look closer, pierced all over with coloured arrows. Equally enchanting are her titles - I am such an admirer of words when wielded well, and these hint at a nuanced narrative, while giving space for growth in our imaginations.

On the subject of words, it's worthwhile reading J.L. Schnabel's recent interview with Nakamura in Hi-Fructose: an insight into her intriguing technique and worldview.

See more of Nakamura's work on her website.

Sunday Soundtrack - Blood Oranges & Bloodflowers.

The carnage that came out of making two jugs of juice yesterday morning.

The colours were just too lovely not to (attempt to) capture.

The Cure - Bloodflowers

Spring Has Sprung - Jen Stark.

From here.

Pedestal.

Burst.

Jen Stark's skillful paper sculptures, exploding with colour from within, seem to speak to the way the world is waking up now that spring is definitively here.

See more on the artist's website, here.

Sunday Soundtrack - Grunge Goodness (& Winning A Giveaway!)

I never win anything. But I just won this beauty from Dear oh Deer and am utterly delighted. Spring colours most certainly putting a spring in my step this Sunday afternoon.

Can't wait to post about it properly at some point in the near future...

Mother Love Bone - Stargazer

Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon

So into all of this right now. (I was born two decades too late, blah blah blah).