February 2012
4 posts
Pool of Tears 2 →
‘I wish I hadn’t cried so much!’ said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. ‘I shall be punished for it, now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.’
Kiki Smith: Pool of Tears 2 (After Lewis Carroll), 2000.
January 2012
1 post
“Well, while I’m here, I’ll do the work — and what’s the work?...”
– Allen Ginsberg
December 2011
10 posts
25. XII. 1993 →
25. XII. 1993 For a miracle, take one shepherd’s sheepskin, throw in a pinch of now, a grain of long ago, and a handful of tomorrow. Add by eye a little chunk of space, a piece of sky, and it will happen. For miracles, gravitating to earth, know just where people will be waiting, and eagerly will find the right address and tenant, even in a wilderness. Or if you’re leaving home,...
transcendence →
“I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our...
“Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will...”
– whiskey river
November 2011
7 posts
“For what can one know even of the people one lives with every day? she asked....”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via awritersruminations)
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“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too...”
– Herman Hesse, from “Siddhartha” (via airwalker)
an illusion must intervene
: “Seduction is never the result of physical attraction, a conjunction of affects or an economy of desire. For seduction to occur an illusion must intervene and mix up the images; a stroke has to bring disconnected things together, as if in a dream, or suddenly...
WatchNOVEMBER 16, WHAT A BUSY DAY!
Color animated / live action video TRT: 7 minutes excerpt: 2 minutes color, sound 2007
SYNOPSIS: In this experimental animated fable, an ordinary day (November 16) is broken into four extraodinary events that I witness and take part in. By 3 am, already 15 species have gone extinct. By 8 am whales sing protest songs against mass extinction and I am...
October 2011
18 posts
Life Among the 1% →
“While we perceive something, we simultaneously forget it. Every present thus...”
– Giorgio Agamben, quoted in Dan Beachy-Quick’s A January Notebook, in “1.24” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
Czesław Miłosz →
“Here there is sun. And whoever, as a child, Believed he could break the repeatable pattern Of things, if only he understood the pattern, Is cast down, rots in the skin of others, Looks with wonder at the colors of the butterfly, Inexpressible wonder, formless, hostile to art.”
—
A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura by Czesław Miłosz (translated by Robert Hass)
growing-orbits:
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The evening with the photograph album
link Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. Not the intense moment isolated, with no before and after, but a lifetime burning in every moment and not the lifetime of one man only but of old stones that cannot be deciphered. There is a time for the evening under starlight, a time for the evening under lamplight...
Whole Earth Catalog →
Whole Earth Catalog, spring 1969
In 1968, Stewart Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog.
exhibit at moma
the way it was meant to happen
“No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.” - Mark Strand
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# # You Never Know Where This Letter Could End Up →
You Never Know Where This Letter Could End Up, 2011, hand-cut paper, 57 x 47 inche | 2011 | art, paper cut letters |
all of this vanishes
“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only...
4 tags
“[This is not a time to think the trumpet vine is sullen.
Rather: the trumpet’s...”
– D. A. Powell, from “Boonies” (via the-final-sentence)
Steve Jobs:"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" via The... →
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And...
“Empty flowers of an illusory dream
sixty seven years.
A white bird disappears...”
– death poem via:whiskey river
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Creating Our Own Light →
September 2011
22 posts
3 tags
“We do not need or desire souvenirs of events that are repeatable. Rather we need...”
– Susan Stewart, On Longing (via mythologyofblue)
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“All you remember of the whole affair are certain words she said in her sleep,...”
– —Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
the surface of impenetrable things
Do not expect that if your book falls open
to a certain page, that any phrase you read will make a difference today, or that the voices you might overhear when the wind moves through the yellow-green and golden tent of autumn, speak to you. Things ripen or go dry. Light plays on the dark surface of the lake. Each afternoon your shadow walks beside you on the wall, and the days stay long and heavy...
from: 1910 (Intermezzo)
Don’t ask me any questions. I’ve seen how things
that seek their way find their void instead.
There are spaces that ache in the uninhabited air…
Poet in New York
Federico Garcia Lorca
nothing →
Rien (nothing) by Remy Charlip, illustrated by Eric Dekker, Editions MeMo, Paris, 2005 (french language)
plan c →
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“In another time, we will want to know how the earth looked
then, and were...”
– whiskey river