Broken Bells - The Mall & Misery youtube.com/watch?v=zcYz...

full moon stare

“Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.” ― Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology

“Absent one, how I miss you on this shore that conjures you and fades if you're away” ― Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems, 1920-1954

Sun comes up

… and [she] is now part of the drift called “the infinite.” I cannot tell how Eternity seems. It sweeps around me like a sea… — Emily Dickinson (letter, 1882)

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Breathe, I say. To myself, to my double, to the other. Breathe.

Starstag - Forever youtube.com/watch?v=JKNq...

“In a world that glorifies more, choose less. Let your life be filled not with things but with meaning, quiet mornings, the laughter of someone you love, the first sip of coffee. True wealth isn’t in possessions but in the beauty of the ordinary.

What is love if not returning, again and again, to the altar of someone’s name and lighting a match in the dark ? 📷 Caspar Jade

#mixedmedia #painting #monoprint #acrylic #ink

Meanwhile in populism.

🖼️ Caleb Hahne Quintana, Talons Reach, 2022

ash and tobacco the smoke is just philosophy of becoming ____________ _______ __

"We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social... our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures." ― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“The word has meaning only if it rids us of the object it names; it must spare us its presence or ‘concrete reminder.’ In authentic language, speech has a function that is not only representative but also destructive.” — Blanchot, “The Myth of Mallarmé” (tr. Charlotte Mandell)

The tragedy may not be the gallery in flames. It might be what remains afterward. Before deciding what’s lost, it’s worth asking: what do we even mean by tragedy? #art #alttext

“There comes a time when one has to make up one’s mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe is a reality which can give the impression of virtuality, whereas the semiotic universe is a virtuality which can give the impression of reality.” ~ Umberto Eco

𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘀

• what matters is THIS moment NOW

“And the rest is rust and stardust.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

I know your tune

📷 Masao Yamamoto, Untitled #7024 (2023)

Mari Samuelsen – Einaudi: Una Mattina (Arr. Badzura) youtube.com/watch?v=pgBE...

The Dream Vessel Expecting Your Presence This Night M. K. Čiurlionis, 1907

waiting for the light to fade

“who is invisible enough to see you” ~ Paul Celan

✍️ Lost halo, you better hide— the mad dawn runs after you.

stairs

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” Philip K. Dick

Coptic Textile Fragment late 3rd–5th century, The Met

'North toward Home' Charcoal & Varnish sketch

The language of longing isn't in writing. It's a braille made of absent touching and skin

American photographer Erwin Blumenfeld Manina, Paris, 1937 #ErwinBlumenfeld #Photography

by Christophe Jacrot.

Bruce Davidson #photography Subway - Queens NY (1980)

“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” ― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

We all became tomorrow

✍️ Lost halo, you better hide— the mad dawn runs after you.

Frequencies will find us

“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” ― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography