you and me

“Jo i soj neri di amòur
è frut nè rosignòul
dut antèir coma un flòur
i brami sensa sen”

“i am black with love
neither boy nor nightingale
perfect entire as a flower
i desire without impulse”

“I wish that I could give you something . . .

but I have nothing left.”

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photographs · fading and euphoric, cy twombly's lesser-known polaroids and photographs capture ordinary instants made nostalgic with time.

film · derek cianfrance's blue valentine unapologetically captures how love can devolve with even the best of intentions. as its title suggests, this love is inevitably undone by what made it spark at the start.

song · you and me by penny and the quarters is an echo of a vow—a desperate attempt at salvaging an unstuck love.

words i · poetry by italian filmmaker paulo pasolini. pasolini's 1964 film the gospel according to st matthew "changed cianfrance's life."

words ii · from the giving tree by shel silverstein.

painting · helen frankenthaler's grey fireworks captures the fleeting brilliance of light, life, and love.