There are people who have no joy in viewing – who have no joy in life, perhaps. I think people don’t observe enough. I’m a great believer in observation. My first passion in life was astronomy......


I don’t see anger as the only driving force for change – concentration can be an equally powerful state of being.


- Wolfgang Tillmans



image via Sarah Jones.
the rose gardens.

quotes from wolgang tillmans via here....










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I am a Thing-Finder,
and when you're a Thing-Finder,
you don't have a minute to spare.

-Pippi.












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thank you victoria:)

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Perfectly banal, in the end, this paradox

"don't
forget
the moon
my love."
































"Often, when we pose our gaze to an art image we have a fortright sensation of paradox. What reaches us immediately and straightaway is marked with trouble, like a self-evidence that is somehow obscure whereas what initially seemed clear and distinct is, we soon realize, the result of a long detour - a mediation, a usage of words.


Perfectly banal, in the end, this paradox.


We can embrace it, let ourselves be carried away by it, we can even experience a kind of jouissance upon feeling ourselves alternately enslaved and liberated by this braid of knowledge and not-knowledge, of universality and singularity, of things that elicit naming and things that leave us gaping....

all this on one and the same surface of a picture or sculpture, where nothing has been hidden, where everything before us has been, simply, presented."

-Georges Didi-Huberman "Confronting Images"
taken from here..












"don't
forget
the moon
my love."

lamps via
gae aulenti.

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Trauermusik Festival.

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"I have found a definition of the beautiful.
It is something intense and sad, something a bit vague...
a contradictory impression of an ardor...
and a desire for life together with a bitterness which flows
back upon them as if from a sense of deprivation and hopelessness.
I do not pretend that joy cannot associate with Beauty,
but I will maintain that joy is one of her most vulgar adornments, while Melancholy
may be called her illustrious spouse, so much so that I can scarcely
conceive a type of beauty which has nothing to do with sorrow."

Baudelaire











William Basinki

"In August and September 2001, he set to work on what would become his most recognizable piece, the four-volume album The Disintegration Loops. The recordings were based on old tape loops which had degraded in quality. While attempting to salvage the recordings in a digital format, the tapes slowly crumbled and left a timestamp history of their demise."

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What is it that I wish to convey?...I wish to convey something immaterial and I have to use material means for it. I have to convey something which is inexpressible and I have to use expression. I have to convey, perhaps, something unconscious and I have to use conscious means. I know in advance that I shall not succeed and cannot succeed, and therefore all I can do is to get nearer and nearer in some asymptotic approach; I do my best, but it is an agonizing struggle in which, if I am…any kind of self-conscious thinker, I am engaged for the whole of my life.

- Isaiah Berlin. The Roots of Romanticism, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999).

(via gil blank's interview with eve fowler, here..)

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i was. above all else, it is about leaving a mark that i existed:

i was here. i was hungry. i was defeated. i was happy.

i was sad. i was in love. i was afraid. i was hopeful.

i had an idea & i had a purpose & that’s why i made works of art.

-felix gonzalez-torres

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