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Category: landscape
AG2018_1490143a4 or place to stand and stare
Related: place to stand and stare.
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“Don’t be afraid. This is the place. On the far side.” “I can’t see shit. I can hardly see you.” “Don’t see; feel,” she said. “You can feel your way, but hurry, hurry.
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“This is the place. Where you can take a choice.”
Morrison, Tar Baby.
Related : Place marked with an impulse, at an impasse.
AG2023_1012125a or calling away despair
darkness comes
suffering touches us
again and again
there is pain
there in the midst of
such harsh barrenness
a cardinal […] calling away despair
AG2023_1012180a or the dark itself
Where would she go [… to ] a kind of purity of being and emptiness,
[I] can wander through worlds of light
less
of everything—wind
& worry
a place of recognition, a mirroring
“… closeness […], one that defies time and space impressed itself on her imagination. Reading Dickinson’s letters and poems she found in the work a place of recognition, a mirroring of her own inner landscape. […] She would enter more fully into the psychic spaces inhabited by Emily Dickinson to return to herself, and her present.”
bell hooks, between us: traces of Love–Dickinson, Horn, Hooks
Roni Horn: Earths Grow Thick, (catalogue), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (There it was, […] all by itself, […], it didn’t need anything. Sitting on the floor, ever so lightly. A new landscape, a possible horizon, a place of rest and absolute beauty. Waiting for the right viewer willing and needing to be moved to a place of the imagination.).
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… fantasy [or the imaginary] is in realism. What is possible, what is probable, what an action might do, and the scale and the scope of the possible effects of things, that’s all about fantasy, projection, and attachment. It’s not exterior to life at all, it’s interior. It’s all about moving within the space of living.
Berlant & Hardt, 2012.
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Make even everyday moments memorable via Improve your memory.
paying undivided attention to important events and interactions
Make even everyday moments memorable–assigns vivid images to whatever one’s trying to remember
study or reflect on things you want to remember, the more likely these memories will be strengthened–commit the scene to memory by journaling
“a memory uncertain about a sentence
a certain observation of an indefinite object”