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‘Texts From Your Existentialist’ is the perfect solution to your Instagram ennui

Texts From Your Existentialist invites you to wallow.

 

Nayomi Reghay

Internet Culture

Posted on Sep 28, 2015   Updated on May 27, 2021, 9:52 pm CDT

If scrolling through social media has ever sent you into an existentialist tailspin, you’re not alone. Let’s face it—we’ve all felt the awful twinge of FOMO. April Eileen Henry, a Los Angeles artist and poet, has a unique approach to coping with it: embracing that void.

Henry’s Instagram account, Texts From Your Existentialist, contains zero selfies and nary a party. Instead, the account provides a steady stream of art and text mashups, with Henry pairing masterpieces from the worlds of film and art with text bubbles of eloquent melancholy.

The results are witty as hell.

Henry’s brilliant creations might just be the perfect antidote to all the ennui that ails you. You can even order prints of her work on her website.

Image via April Eileen Henry/Texts From Your Existentialist

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*First Published: Sep 28, 2015, 3:45 pm CDT