I just feel when we miss sex, we don't miss sex. We miss people and stories. We miss desiring and being desired. We miss the tactility. We miss feeling someone's knee pressed against ours under a table at the bar.
There is a Japanese phrase I came across today: koi no yokan.
It doesn't mean love at first sight. It's closer to love at second sight. It's the feeling when you meet someone that you are going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don't love them right away, but eventually you do
Why are the Ancient Greeks so important? Why do people talk about them so much?
Well, it has something to do with Socrates, who was put on trial by his fellow citizens and sentenced to death.
The crime? Asking too many questions...
Are we as humans meant to hold eachother? When you hold someones hands your fingers perfectly lock with theirs. When you hug someone your face perfectly fits in the crook of their neck? When you kiss the lip flaps gently rest on eachother. Maybe humans were designed to love.
The Renaissance changed the course of history, but how did it happen?
Well, the people who created it didn't think they were doing anything new - they wanted to emulate the past.
It's a story of how innovative ideas aren't about originality, but imitation...
Great art exceeds any context, but seeing it without that context obscures the fact that art was rarely made for it's own sake.
Galleries and online images can make us forget the intimate relationship between art and the socio-cultural conditions of the society that produced it.