Accessible but veiled.

I woke up in the middle of the night, next to the familiar wall. On the other side, I imagined a world with people and lights and tireless machines. But when I listened, I could hear nothing but the wind.

I keep it like it's torture Keep my body like a soldier #nowlistening

"At one time he imagined himself in hell, and all who surrounded him demons … A cat in the place was, at one time, a frightful object of apprehension and terror to him: he said her eyes were fire, and he could plainly see her intention to devour him." —A Constant Observer, Sketches in Bedlam

There was a light in the corner of my eye, and I turned towards it, thinking it was the moon. But it was someone else's window, brightly lit and even further away.

Portrait of Hottō Enmyō Kokushi, c. 1295–1315. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1970.67

I woke up early and noticed the faint light on the ceiling above me. The pale echo of the window, the uncertain shadows, hardly more real than figures in a dream, an hour away from the birth of colour.

Roll the moon over my heart #nowlistening

"So far did delusion carry this man's fancy, that he actually believed he had neither eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, nor teeth."

"Each one of us is alone in the world … We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them." —W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

The opening scene from Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo #cinema #film

また見ることもない山が遠ざかる The mountain I'll never see again grows distant 山頭火 Santoka (tr. Sato Hiroaki) #haiku #俳句

The voice of Salamat Ali Khan in Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar #cinema #film

Aerial photograph of Palmyra Castle, Syria, 1933 #found #photography

あてもなく踏み歩く草はみな枯れたり Aimlessly, I walk through the withered grass. 山頭火 Santoka (tr. John Stevens) #haiku #俳句

Walking past the window, I was startled by the sudden ochre of the outside world. Not long after, it had turned into a quickly fading blue as everything around kept spinning into night.

the consolations of insomnia

家を持たない秋がふかうなった I have no home; Autumn deepens. 山頭火 Santoka (tr. John Stevens) #haiku #俳句

Cy Twombly / North African Sketchbook, 1953

I had wanted to close the windows, but instead I stayed there, listening as the birds were drawing maps of the growing darkness.

Has the distance left to go become further away? #nowlistening

A feeling of possibility appeared, and I tried it on like a new pair of shoes, unsure whether or not it will fit.

"A shared searching toward the partials" #nowlistening

気の抜けたサイダーが僕の人生 A cider gone flat is my life 住宅顕信 Sumitaku Kenshin (tr. Sato Hiroaki) #haiku #俳句

Francis Frith [Pyramid at Dahshûr]

The last two minutes of Bruno Monsaingeon's documentary about pianist Sviatoslav Richter #film #piano

Statue of Dainichi Nyorai, the Great Sun Buddha, made in 1176 by Unkei. Earlier this year we went to Enjoji temple near Nara to see this statue and hike the Yagyu Kaido trail. Unfortunately, the statue had been removed for an exhibition. Maybe next time! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Da... #japan

‘Unseen.’ #Photography by Jungjin Lee #art

淋しい犬の犬らしく尾をふる A lonesome dog wags his tail like a dog 住宅顕信 Sumitaku Kenshin (tr. Sato Hiroaki) #haiku #俳句

淋しいぞ一人五本のゆびを開いて見る Lonely yes alone I open the five fingers and look at them 尾崎放哉 Ozaki Hosai (tr. Sato Hiroaki) #haiku #俳句

"Corrosion offers a profound, unexpected beauty... Corrosion mirrors our own aging process such as the lines on our faces, the gradual wearing down of our bodies, the stories etched into our very being. It speaks of endurance, of resilience, and of the inevitable return to dust." #nowlistening

#nowlistening #piano

何か求むる心海へ放つ The heart that seeks something I release to the sea 尾崎放哉 Ozaki Hosai (tr. Sato Hiroaki) #haiku #俳句

Yokihi Kannon, Sennyuji Temple, Kyoto. I was lucky to see this statue of the Bodhisattva of Compassion earlier this year. Brought in the 13th century from China to Japan, it was later named after the legendary Chinese beauty Yang Guifei. The image is from a postcard sold at the temple. #kyoto #japan

Translucent bodies in Robert Bresson's Quatre nuits d'un rêveur #cinema #film

たばこが消えて居る淋しさをなげすてる The cigarette is dead, I cast away the loneliness 尾崎放哉 Ozaki Hosai (tr. Sato Hiroaki) #haiku #俳句

The faint reverberations of distant centuries and forgotten voices, preserved only as an invisible, half-imagined patina on the surface of old things, are made audible in this haunting new release by @avantologist.bsky.social #soundart

& snagged in the wires, still free, the new moon is body & apparition

New release on this autumn equinox with Hiroko Komiya Full Moon Garden - 満月の庭- hirokokomiyachrishlynn.bandcamp.com/album/full-m...