landscape – Page 109

AG2023_1012125a or calling away despair

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 dig

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

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 dig

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

January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 dig

https://www.tumblr.com/picaresourceroom/143079380137/roni-horn-earths-grow-thick-published-on-the

“… 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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January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 dig

… 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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January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 dig

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”

Thought process

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 dig

Joshua Rothman on forms of thinking, in New Yorker.

“our inner voices are powerful tools that must be tamed. […] The idea is to manage the voice that you use for self-management.

[…]

Schwitzgebel thinks it’s a mistake to categorize dreams one way or the other. “We should also consider the possibility that our dreams are neither color nor black-and-white,” he writes. Dreams are unreal, and might not lend themselves to being described during waking life. In describing them, we give them a fixity they may not have.

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Daniel Dennett argued that a layer of fiction is woven into what it is to be human. In a sense, fiction is flawed: it’s not true. […] Fiction, Dennett writes, has a deliberately “indeterminate” status: it’s true, but only on its own terms. The same goes for our minds.”