— i. films

• rarefilmm: vintage and rare films
• cinema of the world
• film grab: film stills compilation
• palestine cinema archive
• solidarity cinema
  • letterboxd catalog

— ii. poetry

• poetry.sg: singaporean poetry
• poetry foundation

an inexhaustive list of flower motifs

• to a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells of humans in love by petrit halilaj +
• the flowers stand silently, witnessing (2024, dir. theo panagopoulos)
  • filmmaker interview: image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence +
• voyage - zoë më
  • you'll understand one day that flowers are more beautiful when you water them
• mona sugata’s botanical sculptures from cotton
  • tree of life - a planet of playing beings 遊ぶ生命たちの星 - (2025 solo exhibition) +

some fascinating articles.

• linguistic relativity
• list of paradoxes
• list of plants with symbolism
• nature versus nurture
• outline of knowledge
• rabbits and hares in art

— to read.

• exophony: voyages outside the mother tongue - yoko tawada
• the trees witness everything - victoria chang
• 膜 / the membranes - 紀大偉
• one day, everyone will have always been against this - omar el akkad
• against disappearance: essays on memory - ed. leah jing mcintosh and adolfo aranjuez
• the memory police - yoko ogawa
• political fictions: from the middle ages to the "post-truth" present - patrick boucheron

— to watch.

• and so we put goldfish in the pool (2017, dir. makoto nagahisa)

— to listen.

• apply the principle of charity
• it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. - invitation, mary oliver
• you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you feel like you’ve lost many years to grief or darkness or wounds that won’t close
• good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you (๑'ᵕ'๑)⸝*
• do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly, now. love with mercy, now. walk humbly now. you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
• never apologise for being obsessed. read all day. work all day. run for hours. forget time exists. be everywhere but be a ghost. turn off the world and create your own. let craft become compulsion. positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

floriography note. messages to myself, encoded in petals

dictionaries: victorian henrietta dumont ∘ kate greenaway ∘ dale harvey

eglantine rosa rubiginosa: talent, poetry, I wound to heal

cherry blossom prunus subg. cerasus: the ephemeral nature of life, renewal (hanakotoba)

hazel genus corylus reconciliation, inspiration, knowledge

camomile chamaemelum nobile may all your dreams and wishes be fulfilled, energy in adversity

baby blue eyes genus nemophila transformation, healing, achievement, forgiveness (hanakotoba)

or: songs at the end of a dream

• abyss angel - glass beach • plastic death
• helium - glass animals • dreamland
• kan het leven vandaag beginnen - s10 • mijn haren ruiken naar vuur

“make your life the first life that you save.”

── likes. photography, tea, lepidoptera, sumikkogurashi, commonplace books, existentialism, wildflowers, literature, lace accents, critical media analyses, kaomojis, studio ghibli films, the golden hour, having niche passions, patchworks, clouds

── dislikes. false dichotomies, toxic optimism, overly sweet tea, monotony, pseudoscience, listening to my own voice, anti-intellectualism, conservative ideology, ai art, amatonormativity

• abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension
• apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute, denoting reasoning from self-evidently true propositions
• aspersion: a criticism, suggestion, or remark that damages another person's reputation
• bucolic: pastoral
• calefaction: the act of heating
• cognoscente: a person who has expert knowledge in a subject
• controvert: to deny the truth of
• hagiography: the writing of the lives of saints, or a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence
• obloquy: strong public condemnation
• obviate: to remove a need, or to prevent something undesirable
• octothorpe: technical term for hash symbol
• parochial: putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay, specifically...