Marginalia
Quotations, questions, and small fragments, kept as they are rather than expanded into something longer. Dated, finite, no comments.
A feed has no edges. A structure has rooms. The difference between them is not content — it is whether the thing was built to let you leave.
The design argument underneath this entire site, compressed. Everything about the finite issues, the two-door limit, and the absence of a homepage feed comes from this one distinction.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 5 (public domain)
The Stoic half of this project's origin story, in one line rather than an essay. Martin's grids are the visual version of the same instruction: steady yourself before the day asks anything of you.
Happiness. Friendship. Gratitude. Agnes Martin named austere grey grids after feelings, and did not appear to be joking.
On Agnes Martin's titles
A small, disarming fact that does more work than a paragraph of interpretation would. Filed here rather than expanded, because expanding it would ruin it.
The dots are not painted. They are the gaps left over between thousands of hand-made arcs — the ground, showing through.
On Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Nets
Kept here because it is the smallest true thing in the current issue, and because it changes what you see before you have read anything.