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Xylophone from the town of Bukuru in Nigeria. The instrument is made of drilled pine wood and cow horns attached with beeswax and spider web, and its carrying strap is made of an old zipper.
Dogon Headrest
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. IT DOES COME! But it comes only to the patient, who are there although eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Improvised chimney cleaning device, c. 1940s, United States, galvanized bucket, wood, iron bolts, 13” x 10” diameter, collection of Rick Ege
(via tracemarks)
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‘Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.’
—Anais Nin (March 1933)
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