quiet improvisation, New Blue Sun.
“Art is the Tree of Life”, William Blake’s Laocoön.
“they are things that I do
in the dark
reaching for you
[…]
are you ready?
June Jordan, These Poems
IMG_20231128_115305 or things that I do
Category: landscape
AG2023_1066488aab or an ordering
” the exotic was better fabricated than discovered”
“the recognition that in their [Matisse, William Morris] respective societies (and it is even more true today) the mere demand for something like happiness is a kind of rebellion. They recognized, too, that art can offer the counterimage of an order in which the material reproduction of life leaves no space or time for those regions we designate as the “beautiful”.” (Kristin Ross, Elsewhere as Pastiche)
AG2022_2040228a or where every true thing is okay
“sneaking a touch, […] each detail was a jolt of pleasure”
“In this place every true thing is okay.”
“after she spoke, the smile that followed made the sun look like a fool.” (TM)
AG2023_1011957a or beyond survival
Beth’s Story, Carlos Rafael Rivera, The Queen’s Gambit (Music from the Netflix Limited Series)
Playing Townes, Carlos Rafael Rivera
“… let us dream towards
what we want
beyond survival
Amir Rabiyah, Our Dangerous Sweetness
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In the present
“Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.” Popova on Tolstoy and Thich Nhat Hahn.
“You see, I am alive, I am alive
I stand in good relation to the earth
I stand in good relation to the gods
I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful
N. Scott Momaday, “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee”
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“Delay our tomorrow so our road
may extend and space may widen for us, […]
you are so much yourself … and I am
so much other than myself right here before you”
Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another. Translated by Fady Joudah
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The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter (Remastered 2019) (Zeds Dead Remix)
Ella Fitzgerald – Blue Skies (Maya Jane Coles Remix)