Quote for Today: Irène Némirovsky
© Vince Wingate with CCLicense But it was blossom time. Against a sky of pure and relentless blue—that deep but lustrous Sèvres blue seen on certain precious pieces of porcelain—floated branches that...
View ArticleA World of Earth: Yamatane by Yusuke Asai at the Rice Gallery
Modern humanity has found itself disconnected from nature by technology and civilization. Can art help us reconnect with the Earth? Yamatane at the Rice Gallery Yesterday afternoon I made a trip to the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Antonio Machado
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Philip K. Dick
© Forsaken Fotos with CCLicense Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Alice Oswald
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Percy Bysshe Shelley
We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Georges Perec
I would like there to exist places that are stable, unmoving, intangible, untouched and almost untouchable, unchanging, deep-rooted; places that might be points of reference, of departure, of origin:...
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