RAQUEL

smithsonian:

An artist has used our @hirshhorn‘s distinctive circular shape to create this colorful, 360-degree mural.  

Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s “sunrise, sunset” stretches around nearly 400 feet of one of the museum’s curved galleries. Each section has its own vibrant, colorful vignette of the sun rising and setting—the inevitable, daily mark of time that connects that past and the future of humanity.

See the site-specific work through Oct. 1. After that, the museum will paint over Party’s work to make way for the next exhibition, and it will become part of another inevitable cycle of beginnings and endings that govern the space around us.

Learn more about the artist’s inspiration and what it was like to paint in such an unusual space.

THE BAD & THE SAD

  • Badass: Aries, Taurus, Virgo, Sagittarius
  • Cries themselves to sleep: Gemini, Cancer, Libra, Pisces
  • Badass and also cries themselves to sleep: Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

—Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)

(Source: lazyyogi, via floralwaterwitch)

The question is not ‘if we argue’ but ‘how do we argue?’ In relationships, romantic and otherwise, we must not see the person as the opponent, but, rather, the problem as the opponent. We must fight together to resolve it - from the same side. We must not hold grudges. And we must stop seeing each other as easily expendable. For life is full of compatible people, but there will be disagreements with all of them. It is in forging the bonds stronger than these disagreements that we find a deeper connection.

—How do you fight? / Just for thought (via just-4-thought)