Being's Fragility Is Second To That Of "Nothingness"

Fig. 1. Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat, 320 BC (Ptolemaic Period): Amen-em-het, on the left, greets the deities Horus, Isis, Nepthys and Anubis


'God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.'

Paul Valéry

The Shimmering Enchantment Of Impossible Dreams

Fig. 1. Peter Keetman - Spiegelnde Tropfen, 1950


'I have sought, I am searching, and I will search for what I call the Total Phenomenon, that is, the Totality of conscience, relations, conditions, possibilities, and impossibilities.'

Paul Valéry

When The Seen Can't Be Shown, We Resort To Words

Fig. 1. Jan Bruegel the Elder - The Sense of Sight, 1617


'To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.'

Paul Valéry

Addendum: The Sunday Six - Part Three (Relatively Whimsical)

Fig. 2. Marcel Dzama - Gargoyle Man, 2005

Fig. 3. Marcel Dzama - The Rimbaudian Scholarship, 2005

Fig. 4. Marcel Dzama - Shelley's Historic Morning, 2005

Fig. 5. Marcel Dzama - You Gotta Make Room for the New Ones, 2005

Fig 6. Marcel Dzama - Diogenes, 2007

Fig. 7. Marcel Dzama - Ljubojevicm, 2007