something wild happened; a familiar stranger: i read a book. let me rephrase: i read a novel. a novel steeped in spiritual cults, ripe california landscapes and liquid characters that i didn't really connect to, and yet i loved it. i read/skim constantly. lots of articles, non-fiction, cookbooks, how to books (almost exclusively about parenting/children's behavior), and loads of children's books. many of them i read the same paragraph over and over or lots of dog eared pages to return to because my adhd brain can't really sit and finish much. that was not the case with time's mouth by edan lepucki. i don't know if i can say it's a well written book but i can say that i was thrilled by it. this book found itself in my hands at multiple points everyday because the intro had me much too excited:
oof...that representation of time and the sand through your fingers quality tugged at my heart strings and a few days later this book, cover to cover, made its way into my mind archive. i highly recommend for the sheer ride it takes you on, especially for anyone with a relationship to both northern AND southern california, as well as anyone who calls themself a parent. i read this review, which felt mean but go for it if you wanna.
also sorry for my dirty nails. gardening season.
also if you wanna have my copy, i weirdly hate keeping books unless they are cookbooks.
now, onto today's push pick. funny enough i got "introduced" to maira by a wonderful mutual friend only to realize that she works at my son's montessori school. we didn't put the pieces to the puzzle together until a few correspondences in. now i am thrilled to call maira an inspired friend and i am anxiously awaiting a moment we can collaborate. without further ado...
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Maira Senise an artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, based in New York since 2015. She lived in Bogota, Colombia during her childhood with her mother and siblings, and returned to Rio de Janeiro when she was ten. Maira attended college in Rio for fashion design and worked at several clothing brands between 2007 and 2015. During this time, she started to show her work at zine fairs while self-publishing her drawings in books, posters, and temporary tattoos.
Since 2014, Maira has mostly been working with painting, ceramics, wood, metal, video, and found objects to create larger scale installations. Additionally, she makes jewelry, home goods, and clothing under Pink Session.
The photograph of her was from her birthday. Each friend brought her a different kind of flower (very push pick)
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what kind of life do you want to live?
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A life where I have a lot of time to create art and share it with the world. Where I can spend time with my mom and siblings every so often, cook lots of dinners for my friends, and laugh for hours. Seeing cute puppies, visiting great thrift stores, and drinking citrus beverages. Where women can walk down the streets without feeling fear. A life breaking hierarchies and promoting equality, where people are treated with rights, care, and respect.
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I currently have a solo show in CDMX named 'Pies y manos'. I'm very excited about it. For years, I have tried to connect my art practice with the jewelry, home goods, and clothing I make. I often feel there is tension and separation between those worlds and in the value of what is considered art and what is not. I'm looking forward to continuing to mix both practices.
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maíra's social impact project
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Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in Portuguese translates to Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement. It is a social movement created by rural workers that has been fighting for land reform and social inequality in rural areas since the 1980s. They have occupied and redistributed millions of unused hectares of land to unhoused families. Through the MST, these families continue to advocate for schools, credit for agricultural production and cooperatives, and access to healthcare.
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“Baby é tudo um sonho” by Ava Rocha is from the album Nektar. Ava is my older sister, but I genuinely can’t stop listening to this song from her most recent album. John Yurchyk, and I created the album cover.
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While in Kathmandu, everything is so delicious, and I love everyone who works there. I was traveling a lot earlier this year and couldn't stop thinking about coming back home to eat their food. I'm trying to get in touch with the owner to see if he would allow me the honor of making a mirror for their bathroom!
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Rosas
42x35 inches
Oil, acrylic, airbrush, oil pastel, embroidery and found objects.
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It is hard for me to choose between tulips and miniature roses. I love how the solid colors and simple shapes of tulips sometimes resemble something straight out of a cartoon. On the other hand, I've been a rose lover for the past few years, and I find them to be just perfect. Personally, there is nothing more uplifting for me than walking by a NYC bodega and seeing the rose stands outside; it truly changes my mood. When I was a teenager, I refused to like anything too feminine: pink, painted nails, flowers, leopard prints. However, a few years later, I became obsessed with all of the above.
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and a few picks from push...
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when your friends are unbelievably talented (plug for Matteah's quarantine forecast with push projects here)
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i can honestly say that i save nick cave's words to access when i feel lost or misguided. like can you even handle his language around becoming. a parent. the perspective is so grounded and poetic from someone who has experienced immeasurable loss:
Of course you are oscillating between terror and euphoria, I thought, because what you and your wife are about to embark on is perhaps the most substantive course of action two people can take – to bring a baby, that fragile interwork of spirit and atoms, that squalling metaphor of conjugal love, that emissary of hope and potential, that boy of joy, into what is, by any measure, a deeply troubled world. I thought about what a defiant and outrageous act of positive intentionality it was, of courage and faith in the human adventure itself, of resistance against cynicism, of pure, undiluted trust in things, and I felt a very real affection for you both.
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every month should be poetry month
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recently learned about this artist whose work i've been really enjoying!
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to further my commitment to the life i led during quarantine, can someone please send me here
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marissa zappas always on the cutting edge of all things related to one of our misunderstood senses
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what does pulp smell like?
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we hope you are warming up and that you enjoyed another installment of push picks. as always, if you like what you read, forward it to someone or encourage them to sign up. it would mean the world to us 🌎
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