To write is certainly not to impose a form (of expression) on the matter of lived experience. Literature rather moves in the direction of the ill-formed or the incomplete [...] Writing is a question of becoming, always incomplete, always in the midst of being formed, and goes beyond the matter of any livable or lived experience. It is a process, that is, a passage of Life that traverses both the livable and the lived. Writing is inseparable from becoming: in writing, one becomes-woman, becomes-animal, or -vegetable, becomes-molecule, to the point of becoming-imperceptible. These becomings may be linked to each other by a particular line [...] or they may coexist at every level, following the doorways, thresholds, and zones that make up the entire universe [...]

Gilles Deleuze (trans. Daniel W. Smith & Michael A. Greco) Literature and Life 

Mural, 1926, Fernand Léger

Early nature documentary made by F. Percy Smith (1880-1945)

Mark Segal. Portrait of a Woman Looking Down, 1996. 

Kasper Sonne (Danish, b. 1974), Borderline (New Territory) No 55, 2014, 200 x 300 x 5 cm

Thomas Wright, The Pleiades c.1711

Maria Chojnacka At The Sea Shore, detail, 1973. Thread and seashells.

From “Weaving, a handbook of the fiber arts” by Shirley Held, 1978.

For some time now, one of the most successful tactics of the ruling class has been responsibilisation. Each individual member of the subordinate class is encouraged into feeling that their poverty, lack of opportunities, or unemployment, is their fault and their fault alone. Individuals will blame themselves rather than social structures, which in any case they have been induced into believing do not really exist (they are just excuses, called upon by the weak). What Smail calls “magical voluntarism” — the belief that it is within every individual’s power to make themselves whatever they want to be — is the dominant ideology and unofficial religion of contemporary capitalist society, pushed by reality TV “experts” and business gurus as much as by politicians.

— k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)

Everything upon which their thrones are set is made by the workers’ hands.

Strike, 1925 
dir. by Sergei Eisenstein