The Other Four Letter Word And Its Multiple Miseries

Robert Indiana - LOVE, 1964

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anaïs Nin

The Highest Ecstasy Is The Attention At Its Fullest*

Fig. 1. Andrea Pozzo - Fresco representing Hercules’ deeds and apotheosis in the Hercules Hall of the Liechtenstein Garden Palace, 1704-1708

'I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic - in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.'

Anaïs Nin

* 'The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.' (Simone Weil)

Darkness Is That Which Is Waiting For Light To Arrive

Fig. 1. Robert Longo - Untitled (Hot Sun), 2006


'When you possess light within, you see it externally.'

Anaïs Nin

In Art, We Always See More Than We Are Looking At

Fig. 1. Beth Lipmann - Still Life (detail), 2007


'We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.'

Anaïs Nin

And All In Graceful Proportion To One's Courage*

Fig. 1. Sam Taylor-Wood - Self Portrait Suspended II, 2004

'Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.'

Rainer Maria Rilke

* 'Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.' Anaïs Nin

Your Ears Will Orgasm #22: Michael Nyman - Out of The Ruins (MixPod Player)

La Petite Vague

Fig. 1. Traditional Japanese Wave Fabric


'Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.'

Anaïs Nin

Your Ears Will Orgasm #6: Les Danseurs (MixPod Player)

1. Lykke Li - Dance, Dance, Dance
2. Empress - Dyin' To Be Dancin'
3. Billy Idol - Dancin' With Myself
4. David Byrne - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
5. Robbie Fulks - Dancing Queen
6. Funk Brothers - Dancing In The Street