Hey there! I'm Sasha. I like to draw, photograph, write and blog about life. I'm currently studying to be an Illustrator at the School of Visual Arts. My favorite pastimes include drinking tea, day-dreaming, discovering new music, playing games, looking out windows, over-analyzing, doodling, and eating sweet treats.
I do enjoy Email.
Things happen for a reason.
If it’s meant to be, it will.
One door closes, another door opens.
Cliche, cliche, cliche.
What one resorts to when wishing for the better.
There is one thing I have learned this year, I will always remember.
I have learned fate from experience.
(via yearslater)
I usually wouldn’t reblog something like this, but I feel it right to do so now.
I need to take all four points of advice directly to heart.
Queen Anne’s Lace
I was drawing rabbits today, and came across pictures of meadows filled with various types of weeds and flowers. And I started thinking about Queen Anne’s Lace.
I never knew the name of this weed, but it has such a direct connotation in my head with Upstate. I started Googling various types of weeds, and realized that every single one of them made me think of Upstate New York. I saw a bunch together on a page, and suddenly all these memories and images came into my head.
All this time I had been pulling these weeds out of the ground but I never knew their names.
And I think they are all quite beautiful.
Yesterday I also felt the smell of the lake in the air, of dampness and water, while drawing by the Staten Island Ferry. It just hit me when I walked outside, and I stopped for a minute, and wanted to keep smelling it to jog my memory.
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I keep talking about my summers Upstate.
1. i have queen anne’s lace tattooed on my ribs.
2. the scientific name is daucus carota: wild carrot flowers. as in, king of carrot flowers.
Oh that’s neat! Wild Carrot flowers, that’s perfect for what I just drew. A rabbit jumping to catch a carrot, and there are going to be these flowers growing in the field.
Queen Anne’s Lace
I was drawing rabbits today, and came across pictures of meadows filled with various types of weeds and flowers. And I started thinking about Queen Anne’s Lace.
I never knew the name of this weed, but it has such a direct connotation in my head with Upstate. I started Googling various types of weeds, and realized that every single one of them made me think of Upstate New York. I saw a bunch together on a page, and suddenly all these memories and images came into my head.
All this time I had been pulling these weeds out of the ground but I never knew their names.
And I think they are all quite beautiful.
Yesterday I also felt the smell of the lake in the air, of dampness and water, while drawing by the Staten Island Ferry. It just hit me when I walked outside, and I stopped for a minute, and wanted to keep smelling it to jog my memory.
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I keep talking about my summers Upstate.
Castevet - Between Berwyn and Bryn Mawr
I discovered this band last week, and have been listening to them constantly ever since.
The raw voice is great, the music is great.
I love the lyric,
“Stay in old apartments with ghosts in the walls. church bells and airplanes try to roll you out of bed, but you’ll sleep instead.”
Church bells would often wake me up in the summer.
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In fact, I guess I had by that time developd a certain reluctance to meet a man whose genius had affected me so strongly from afar; one feels that it is better not to confront certain sphinxes.”
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“It had been perfect; the man had deepened the feeling his work had always had on me, and yet at the same time remained adjacent to it, not interfering, as though he knew that this was the way.
”—
John Ashbery, forward on Joseph Cornell.
I’m currently researching Joseph Cornell, and becoming more and more interested with him and his work as I go along.
I especially love this quote from the forward in a book about Cornell, as this is how I often feel when I admire someone deeply, and sometimes later meet them. I love how he uses the word, “sphinxes,” to describe such rare talents.
Just downloaded a ton of Midwestern 90’s emo music.
Where has this been all my life? Why did I miss this entire movement in the 90’s?
This is the kind of music you have to know about, and look for in order to find in the endless sea of junk out there now. I mean, it’s been years since these bands made their music.
People always make fun of emo music but this legit stuff. I know this because I used to have a closed off mind to anything I thought might be it.
I love it when I find out about a bunch of bands I never knew about before. All it takes is for me to like one band out of a certain movement, and I’ll find five more I like.
You want to be part of the awesomest Secret Santa exchange on tumblr?
It’s easy! To participate, simply click on the link above to RSVP. After you do that, take one minute to set up a free account, which will let you put up a wishlist/idea list for your Secret Santa, enter your address in a secured location that ONLY your Secret Santa will be able to see, and be able to ask anonymous questions to one another to find out the best gift ideas!
YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN ELFSTER ACCOUNT IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GIFT MAILED TO YOU - don’t worry, it’s free, super super easy, and safe!Be sure to put your Tumblr name on your account! Last year, the simplest solution for that was to enter your name as “Firstname Lastname (TumblrUsername)” so it’s easy for your secret santa to find.
Names will be drawn on December 5 (next Saturday). You have to be registered by then if you want to participate! This will give you time to think of your awesome gift, make your awesome gift, and mail your awesome gift! Since there was a bit of confusion with deadlines last year, this year let’s keep it simple - please get your package in the mail by December 25. If you don’t think you’ll be able to get something together and get it in the mail by then, please don’t participate — last year some people ended up not getting presents b/c their secret santas dropped the ball, and I don’t want that to happen again!!
Alright? Alright!
So in.
I’m going to do this. I probably won’t get anything back because I usually don’t in these anonymous internet exchanges, but hey, I think it’ll still be fun.
“People only make you swerve. I won’t show anybody anything I’m working on. If they hate it, it’s a bad thing, and if they like it, it’s a bad thing. An artist has to be ingrown to be any good.”
— Andrew Wyeth
