Alai Ganuza, My Fridge, 2022

Alai Ganuza, My Fridge, 2022 

Oil, 72 x 92 cm 

I’m reading John Adam’s annotated copy of Mary Wollstonecraft’s  Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution, ya know, for like, fun. And it’s hilarious.  I swear he’s almost a caricature of himself. It’s TOO John Adams™  

Like this over-dramatic nonsense  

At first, it’s clear he can’t get over the fact that a chick is writing about POLITICS

He loves to write little sarcastic comments when the language and/or sentiments are Too Optimistic for him

also when Wollstonecraft sly-digs the american revolution

He didn’t think Marie Antoinette was All That (later he says “her beauty was chiefly the fiction of flattery”)

Is a total prude even in his most private thoughts #repressed

But every once in a while shows genuine appreciation for good writing

Sweet duckling 🐥🌸

Wait for the master.

Super Antics by Kerry Callen (link to FB):

dialogue/writing prompts - breaking your characters

"I trusted you." "That was your first mistake."

"God, why do you have to be—" "—such a monster? You think I don't know what already?"

"Because I killed them."

insanity creeps slowly

"It wasn't your fault..." "Then whose was it?"

"There has never been a quote more wrong than 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. No—it whittles at your soul until you're living dead."

"I may not have pushed in the blade, but my hands are equally stained in this murder."

"I love you." "I'm sorry."

tears turning to laughter

"You really think you did something? You think you could change me? Because you cannot reverse blood spilled. You cannot yank a knife from a heart and expect it to continue beating."

"...that hurt." "I hope so."

"Who are you?"

"I loved you. I trusted you." "And you deserved it."

"I am insane? Me? Not the one whose—" "—I don't want to hear it!" "—you dared—" "—damn it—" "—I will—" "—stop."

"I can't do this anymore."

MC quite likes the feel of a cold blade on warm flesh

"Do you think living is easier than dying? Living, you have to wake every day and continue no matter what you wish to do. At least Death pushes the pain away."

"Don't do that." "What? Don't sit like that? Breathe like that? Look at me that way? By the time you're done with me, you'll only have another version of yourself. Trimmed and dead inside."

white chrysanthemums mean death and grief

lilies mean innocence after death and loss

poppies mean sleep and oblivion

the full moon symbolizes madness

marigold means pain and grief

mallow means consumed by love