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. “To lose and survive the loss, a new position must be claimed on the side of mourning, tolerating the death that sustains and frames with the veil of fantasy the vivacity of objects, allowing us to enjoy the play of the unconscious,” —Jamieson Webster & Patricia Gherovici . Ph. Florence Henri

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📷 Bertha E. Jaques, Blossom of the Chandelier Plant, 1910, Cyanotype photogram

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Elaine de Kooning Desert Wall 1986

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Glad it found you well, Maria 🖤

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Abanindranath Tagore Untitled (Siva-Simantini) circa 1920s

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. “the emphatic truth of gesture in the important moments of life” —Baudelaire . Chu Teh-Chun, A Gesture of Light

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. “Think about others in such a way that it is no longer you who comes back from this thought and that it is not in a thought that you dispose yourself towards them.” —Blanchot (tr. Lycette Nelson), The Step Not Beyond . Vivian Springford

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Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) Tiger looking at the moon

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. “An image is the making-one, the making-itself-one of something. This ‘one’ is not unity as opposed to multiplicity: it is the possibility that anything at all, including something multiple or fluid, may come to presence;” —Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image . Kazuyuki Futagawa

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Gertrude Abercrombie Inheritance 1955

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Kawanabe Kyosai 河鍋暁斎 Hell Courtesan 地獄太夫図 1871-89

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Stanisław Witkiewicz Spring Mist 1893

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. “The room was dark, not that it was obscure: the light was almost too visible, it did not illuminate.” —Maurice Blanchot

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Charles Ginner (1878-1952) The Greenhouse

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Aha yes, it was hand-tinted per the description—not sure if that is accurate. I can’t tell the difference between autochrome and hand-tinted by eye when the latter is done well but I do love autochrome photography, it produces such a nice palette.

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Leslie Van Der Sluys Black Swans 1980

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Maruyama Okyo Ferocious Tiger (detail) 1765

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Will Barnet Silent Seasons-Winter 1968

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Françoise Gilot Magic Mountain 1989-91

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. “I believe that that extraordinary commandment, according to which, in a land of masters, we observe one day out of seven without work . . . that suspension, that emptiness, clearly introduces into human life the sign of a gap, a beyond relative to every law of utility.” —Lacan . Ernst Leijden

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* WINTER SONG As beautiful as fire Pulsing in the still sunset, Ardent, golden. As beautiful as sleep Breathing inside a chest, Alone, hidden. As beautiful as silence Vibrating in kisses, Winged, sacred. — Luis Cernuda

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. Affection! thy intention stabs the centre / Thou dost make possible things not so held, / Communicat’st with dreams;—how can this be?— / With what’s unreal thou coactive art, / And fellow’st nothing. —Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale . Ph. Minor White, Ritual Branch

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Salvador Dalí’s set design for the dream sequence in Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)

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Vasily Vasilievich Rozhdestvensky, Winter Landscape, 1920

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. “Even those who live most alone are moved by a response from a fellow being, and throw themselves into their work with increased enthusiasm, increased exclusiveness, as if to create a multiple solitude of souls.” Cesare Pavese . Edvard Munch

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the soul needs silence and peace and once there, it knows Michael Harding Jack Barnosky

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. "The individual ought to occupy the midpoint between the taking on of form and the annihilation of form" — Catherine Malabou . Linn Meyers

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Marianne Appel Deer Mountain Trail 1937

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