fun fact

w/o April 29th 2024

write about or use asymmetry in your writing. what is the intrigue in imbalance? maybe work with different-sized stanzas or long, long sentences followed by short ones, or think about how no two bodies are the same, nor two halves of the same body, or how the feeling of a painting shifts with where the objects sit.

I decided to interpret asymmetry as the discrepancy between the all-too-popular depiction of the 'mad genius' - one I quickly bought into as a socially isolated teenager - and my experience re-learning art with a healthy(?) mind.

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famous quotes about the purported link between artistic genius and madness in bold black text, overlapping each other to the point of illegibility. a small clear space in the bottom right of the piece, bearing the barely legible words: "Did you know Van Gogh painted 'Starry Night' in recovery?".