Jonnea the Storyteller

a new collection of digital collage, drawing, photography and more in an attempt to both excavate and archive myself. Click here to see full page.

"i look through my self portraits, and I can't see myself" raven leilani x luster (book) "the hoarder resembles an artist or an artisan whose identity as such is a function of the artifact he produces" rebecca r falkoff x possessed "all the women will be fine" luckiest girl alive (movie) "a complicated overwhelming compliment" zoje stage x baby teeth "truthteller" "we are radiating energy constantly , at pretty much the same rate that we absorb it...we are consuming order and generating disorder; we live by increasing the disorder of the universe" ted chiang x exhalation (book) "ask why, asshole" enron: the smartest guys in the room (documentary) “Who is the world built for?” sara hendren x what can a body do (book) "The more honest I am, the freer I am" jerrod carmichael [rec. 11.1.22] "Anthropologists will tell you that oral cultures understand the past differently; for them, their histories don't need to be accurate so much as hey need to validate the community's understanding of itself. So it wouldn't be correct to say that their histories are unreliable; their histories do what they need to do" ted chiang x exhalation (book) "act of god" flight (movie) "The past the present tomorrow too" anna ternheim x what have i done "There is a direct pipeline between failure and funny." [rec. 10.23.22] "'our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days'" ralph ellison x invisible man "Big dog when the lights off" LustSickPuppy x orientation “Angel roars” midnight mass (tv show) [rec. 9.30.21] “I remember i am energy, not memory, not self…just by remembering, im returning home” midnight mass (tv show) [rec. 9.30.21] "Some people feast on everything, while others content themselves with the crumbs" the heart and other viscera x felix j. palma (book) "running is a victory" woodkid x run boy run (song) "I can make you glitter" htrk x kiss kiss and rhinestones (song) “All those suns so near his tongue his mouth held the day hostage but didn’t swallow it.” danez smith x homie (poetry book) "Love's gonna get you killed /But pride's gonna be the death of you, and you and me" pride x kendrick lamar (song) "In the blazing sun I saw you / In the shadows hiding from yourself" fka twigs x fallen alien (song) "even the smallest things should consider you" //paraphrased// shark tank episode x browndages pitch (tv show) "Cuz I'm lust sick fucking puppy / These bitches love me / These niggas dummies / But they still wanna rub my tummy" LustSickPuppy x orientation “When we die we’re just stories” haunting of hill house (tv series) [rec. 10.31.18] “I don't rock Chanel, I rock channel /And no this ain't a purse, it's a satchel” tyler the creator and asap rocky x potato salad (song) “We must leave evidence” leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha x care work (book) “...the butterfly is so fit an emblem of the human soul that its name in Greeke is psyche, the word for the soul. we have not much language to appreciate this phase of decay, this withdrawal, this era of ending that must precede beginning. Nor of the violence of the metamorphosis, which is often spoken of as thought they were as graceful as a flower blooming” rebecca solnit x a field guide to getting lost (book) “For our children, it was the red ground, the summer sun, a feeling of belonging, history that trailed back generations” brenda peynado x the rock eaters (book)