In Some Very Rare Hour The First Word Of A Poem*

Fig. 1. Mequitta Ahuja - Fount, 2009


'[Philosophical] ideas by themselves change nothing in the life of an individual. Without the practical knowledge of how to bring great ideas into the heart and even the tissues of the body, philosophy cannot take us very far. Systems, explanations, clarifications, proof - through these modern man squanders his attention on the intellectual function while remaining cut-of from the emotional and instinctual sides of his nature, wherein reside the most powerful energies of our being, and without the corresponding development of which no authentic moral power is possible.'

Jacob Needleman

* 'For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - only then can it happen that in come very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them.' (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Because In This Nakedness The Spirit Finds Its Rest*

Fig. 1. Anselm Kiefer - Erotik im Fernen Osten oder: Transition from cool to warm, 1977


'As the eye, so the object.'

William Blake

* St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)

The Eyes In The Backs Of Our Heads Aren't Our Own

Fig. 1. Jo Ann Callis - Woman with Wet Hair, 1978


'The self is not the cumulative result of repeated surrenders to the demands of rationality.'

Wayne Froman (from Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics and the Sublime)

Always In The Same Movie, Never In The Same Scene

Fig. 1. Hiroshi Sugimoto - Ohio Theatre, Ohio 1980


'If I seem on the verge of superstition, please recall that the images we make are part of our minds, they are living organisms that carry on our mental lives for us, darkly, whether we pay them any mind or not.'

Hollis Frampton

Because "The World" Has Never Been Photographed

Fig. 1. Andreas Gursky - Atlanta, 1996


'A photograph isn't what was photographed. It's something else. It's a new fact.'

Garry Winograd

Addendum: The Eyebrows Have It (click image)

The Sunday Six: Actually ... Caesar's Numinous Nine*

Fig. 1. Coming Undone

Fig. 2. Precious

Fig. 3. Roundabout

Fig. 4. Ebb Tide

Fig. 5. Monday's Child

Fig. 6. Metatron

Fig. 7. Blessed

Fig. 8. Distant Thunder

Fig. 9. Wallflowers

'One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.'

Oscar Wilde

Your Ears Will Orgasm #57: Animental - Animal Collective Mix - (Mix) (MixPod Player)

* Ray Caesar's Website

Untitled (In Advance Of A Larder Empty Of Old Art)*

Fig. 1. Myfanwy MacLeod - Untitled (brancusi), 2009


'Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.'

Isidore Ducasse

* Marcel Duchamp - In Advance of the Broken Arm, 1915