Category: landscape

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who pays any attention 
to the syntax of things

[…]

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

Cummings

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The Channeler, Anahid Nersessian, interviewed by Merve Emre, Episode Four of “The Critic and Her Publics”, March 12, 2024.

“One of my aims is to create a space where a reader can take twenty minutes to engage with an object. Not to be too idyllic about it, but to me that’s freedom, and the more we can experience or rehearse freedom in our day-to-day lives, the more we can know what it might be on a grander scale.”

“That reading would have to be something like the old saw from academic discourse around what’s called secularism. Nowadays nobody believes in God, in fairies, nymphs, anything, so we look at the world and see trees instead of animate beings that have souls. And this is very depressing for everyone. So, this seems to be an expression of that same idea—I don’t see magic in the world.”

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“the thing that cannot be fitted into a system but which nevertheless the system needs into order to constitute itself as a system” – Hubert Damisch through Rosalind Krauss on Agnes Martin via Nersessian’s Apostrophe : Clouds.

“clouds synchronize the concrete with the immaterial” – AN

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“That’s all man is: a creature you can feel pity for.”

“So it’s death, then, and nothing more, that is the disappointing truth of every life?”

The Most Secret Memory of Men: A Novel, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from French by Lara Vergnaud

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“Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul” Kandinsky via Popova.

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Qué vanidad imaginar
que puedo darte todo, el amor y la dicha,
itinerarios, música, juguetes.

What vanity to imagine
I can give you everything, love and bliss,
Itineraries, music, toys.

Julio Cortázar, Bolero.

“To truly see my country by looking at it in the mirror of another country.” Sarr

To truly see A by looking at it in the mirror of another A (objectively, B).

Human :: plants

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