Agnes Martin, The Islands, 1961.
We carry pain that isn’t our own, deep within our tissues, often from distant, forgotten generations. When an inexplicable thread of pain emerges from somewhere within me, I’m learning to ask more questions instead of closing up and shutting down.
Habitually I’ve assumed it was an unnamed insufficiency of my own at the heart of any inexplicable anguish. But no.
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