Devon

[Devon @Fernandverse]

I love discovering the quieter, earlier side of Klimt. This feels so far removed from the gold and ornament we usually associate with his work, yet the intimacy is already there.

Gustav Klimt • Sappho • 1890

An ancient Greek poet imagined through the eyes of a young Klimt.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

Your brain doesn't just need caffeine. It also needs constant exposure to:

Schopenhauer's merciless honesty
Kafka's existential unease
Dostoevsky's holy despair
Sylvia Plath's fragile storms
Jane Austen's quiet wit
Camus' sunlit absurdity

[Devon @Fernandverse]

the leaves will fall for you this autumn and so will i

[Devon @Fernandverse]

Only we know.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

There’s a kind of freedom in the moments the internet never gets to see. Phones put away. The world somewhere else. No audience, no performance, nothing being captured for anyone else. Just two people living a little piece of life that belongs only to them.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

I could get lost in all the details here, but my eyes always come back to the same place: two people wrapped around each other in the middle of all that gold.

Gustav Klimt • Fulfilment • 1905–09

Part of Klimt’s designs for the Stoclet Frieze.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

So many late-night conversations when the rest of the world feels very far away. No audience, no internet, no performance. Just two people talking about life. Thank you for letting me know the person behind it all.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

Little pieces of a life I really love༯

[Devon @Fernandverse]

i want to spend all my time with u . 𝓍𝓍

[Devon @Fernandverse]

A little reminder that the world is still very, very beautiful. 🌊

[Devon @Fernandverse]

I've been thinking about how difficult accountability seems to be for some people.

Not everything that happens to us is within our control, of course. But sometimes the line between action and consequence is remarkably clear.

You make a choice. It produces an outcome. And instead of examining the choice, you become angry at the outcome.

At what point did acknowledging our own role in creating a situation become harder than simply calling ourselves the victim of it?

[Devon @Fernandverse]

I love the feeling of anticipation here, the letter in her hand, the garden gate, the sense that she's quietly on her way to meet someone she loves.

Suzuki Harunobu • Meeting Her Lover • c. 1766
An Edo-period Japanese woodblock print by Harunobu, one of the great masters of ukiyo-e and an important figure in the development of full-color woodblock printing.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

༯Summer, remembered in black and white.

[Devon @Fernandverse]

@ahappyhumanbein Counting down the days ༞༞