"You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with stars"
-Thomas Traherne
"No, for me, it is the 'story' and not the 'sequel,' which is strange and awful, for I have always believed that wonder is of the soul."
-Arthus Machen
Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too
-William Blake, Songs of Innocence, The Divine Image.
Hand with Lovers’ Eyes and a Background of Flames,
Fatima Ronquillo
My soul would like to be a star,
But not when, like living eyes,
From the midnight sky,
They stare upon our sleepy world.
No, but during daytime when, hidden
By the searing haze of sunlight,
Like ever-brighter deities,
They burn unseen in the pure ether.
-Fyodor Tyutchev
"Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement — in which the muscles do not also revel… Sitting still… is the real sin against the Holy Ghost".
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Ken Grant, Ruins, Merthyr Tydfil, 2008.
"A strange emotion seized me. A fiery trembling ran in waves through all my body. My heart quickened its beating, tumult agitated my mind. I felt that I was surrounded by portentous mysteries."
- La estrella, The Symbolism Of The Tarot, P. D. Ouspensky.
Leonora Carrington.
¿Sabes que la esperanza a veces consiste sólo en una pregunta sin respuesta?
-Clarice Lispector
"They are all candles", Tepoztlán, 1952. Archivo Carlotta.
1) Dora Maar, Untitled hand shell, 1934.
2) Francois Auguste René Rodin, Cathedral, 1908.
3) Man Ray, Rayograph, 1925.
$) Tina Modotti, Hands washing, 1927.