Notes | Brutkey

You are standing before me, looking directly into my eyes. Behind me is only forest. Behind you is The Void.

You can hear the scolding of squirrels, the business of songbirds, and something else—something creeping. The sunlight fades quickly. We are in the lovely crepuscle now, a dark periwinkle underglow.

You can barely see my face but you cannot look away. You realize as the darkness surrounds you that I’m not there. The woods have engulfed me. The woods surround you, too. You are here and not here. You no longer wonder where I am. You know where we are.

The beasts, they hunt all around. The nightjar is quiet. The owl interrogates you. You don’t disclose what you know. You’ve always been excellent at keeping secrets. This is your reward.

The brook keeps running quietly, only loud enough. When will we see each other again? Then the thought is gone forever.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

#SilentSunday

A photo of wild plants withstanding the snow one winter's day. The light is coming from the east and dappled kissing the pristine snow. The plants are dry, thin stalks with the remains of seed heads and old blossoms, now turned black and forming little constellations with their soft silhouettes. Those plants that are in the soft sunlight reveal a sandy brown hue to their stalks. The winter image feels still and quiet, as it was.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

The past future was better than the present future and the future future. You know what I mean.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

1. Look in the mirror.
2. Say aloud “This isn’t real.”
3. Say aloud “Oh, but this IS real.”
4. Achieve acceptance.
5. Consider screaming into the void.
6. Instead, compile a list of instructions.
7. Exercise.
8. Eat.
9. Sleep.
10. Live.
11. Look in the mirror.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

Things are odd these days.

A black and white self portrait. I'm lying on a fallen tree trunk. The photo is turned vertically so it looks like the tree is upright. Although my hair is in front of my face hanging across the trunk, as is the skirt of my white dress. It's a little eerie looking, perhaps.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

Bladerunner was a film about a cop who ran around breaking a lot of glass while trying to kill humanoids that were about to die on their own anyway.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

A photo of the Atlantic Ocean with a ship in the distance, horizon about midway in the frame. The colors have been shifted towards purple. So it looks like a different world.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

one winter

A photo of small dried native plants poking out of snow. Most of the image is the white snow and there are two small plants with dried little flower tops sticking out at an angle as if growing out of a snow drift. It's a fairly stark image.

thethuthinnang
@photovotary@beige.party

Random advice worth what you paid for it:

1. When walking in the woods on a blustery day, don’t.
2. If you find a red thread in the woods, pull it.
3. Notice what the moon is doing.
4. Crows let you know when something is up, but they won’t tell you what it is.
5. People who say they never lie are lying.
6. There is no Easter Bunny. There is only Tom. Leave him alone. You’ve been warned.
7. Bunnies are not joking around.
8. Squirrels don’t care that you think they are cute.
9. That salamander under that log over there doesn’t want to meet you.
10. Indigo buntings know what you’re thinking.