Arjun Vijay Prakash

a brand new day? i saw a reel that said something like this: “when loser started playing, peter parker on the screen and the person watching him realized they were living the exact same life.” i read it once and scrolled past like a normal person. then i went back and read it again and just… sat there. brand new day did something i genuinely did not see coming. no real villain. no sidekick helping spidey. let’s not talk about the love story part. what’s left is just a guy refusing to give up, over and o...

i wasn’t planning to say any of this, it just came out… Claude Monet — Nymphéas, effet du soir. the lilies in the water are us. i want to start by saying this properly, because i never actually said it properly, i just said it in the middle of the night after you sent me a pillow meme and i just couldn’t hold it in. some meme saying: “this is me when i realize you sleep with someone called ‘pillow’ everyday instead of me.” i read it and laughed. then i read it again and then… i spilled all of me. so i wr...

on finding the proof that i existed. Claude Monet’s Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1903). i chose this artwork because it shows a perfect balance between two massive forces. the sky is full of orange light, which is from the sunset, but the river and the buildings are covered in blue and purple colours. this is what equilibrium looks like to me. the best thing is that neither one “takes over the painting”. they happen at the exact same rate. it perfectly matches how my best and worst days happened on the ...