to the nine,

curation of literature & visual art (slow/sporadic posting)

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hi! this is a new account dedicated to archiving the shared memories of hanbin, jiwoong, hao, matthew, taerae, ricky, gyuvin, gunwook, and yujin through literature and visual art 📝🖼️

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✦ Notebook, 1981, Eileen Myles

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I was so willing to pull a page out of my notebook, a day, several bright days and live them as if I was only alive, thirsty, timeless, young enough, to do this one more time,

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I called it poetry, but it was flesh and time and bread and friends frightened and free enough to want to have another day that way, tear another page.

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✦ Separation, W. S. Merwin

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Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

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Fallen Angel (1847), Alexandre Cabanel // Zhang Hao via and2ble on Instagram

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✦ Another Country, James Baldwin

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So what can we really do for each other except—just love each other and be each other’s witness? And haven’t we got the right to hope—for more? So that we can really stretch into whoever we really are?

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✦ The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

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At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

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Gebirgsbach in der Ramsau (1868), Emil Jakob Schindler // Ricky for AND2BLE The 1st Mini Album “Sequence 01: Curiosity” Concept Photo 'Unnatural' ver.

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✦ Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

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Cher in Moonstruck (1987), directed by Norman Jewison // Zhang Hao in ZEROBASEONE ‘GOOD SO BAD’ MV, directed by Dongyeon Kang

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A Rubber Plant On A Window Ledge, Dezsö Czigány // Kim Taerae for ELLE Korea (Super ELLE ZEROBASEONE Book-in-Book) 2023

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Still Life with a Curtain, Paul Cézanne // Zhang Hao for FILA FUSION

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@moongiboongi

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✦ O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman

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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;