The Line Between The Love And Creation Of Beauty*

Jean-Antoine Watteau - Embarkation for Cythera, 1717

To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

* The love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Things That Appear Only As They Are Disappearing

Caspar David Friedrich - Woman Before the Rising Sun (Woman Before the Setting Sun), 1818-20

Physically, too, she had altered. Her blue, almond-shaped eyes, grown longer, had not kept their form; they were indeed of the same colour, but seemed to have passed into a liquid state. So much so that, when she shut them it was as though a pair of curtains had been drawn to shut out a view of the sea. It was no doubt this one of her features that I remembered most vividly each night after we had parted.

Marcel Proust (from The Captive)

We Are Made To Mourn, Sang The Scottish Poet ...

Alexander McQueen (16th March 1969 - 11th February 2010)

If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave,
By Nature's law design'd,
Why was an independent wish
E'er planted in my mind?
If not, why am I subject to
His cruelty, or scorn?
Or why has man the will and pow'r
To make his fellow mourn?

Robert Burns - from Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge

Ron Mueck: Canny ... Uncanny ... Boy, Can He!, Pt 12

Ron Mueck - Youth, 2009

Ron Mueck: Canny ... Uncanny ... Boy, Can He!, Pt 11

Ron Mueck - Mask II, 2002

Ron Mueck: Canny ... Uncanny ... Boy, Can He!, Pt 10

Ron Mueck - Drift, 2009

A Post For Which No Adequate Title Was Found ...

Frida Kahlo - My Birth, 1932

Because I know that time is always time

And place is always only place

And what is actual is actual only for one time

And only for one place

I rejoice the things that are and

I renounce the blessèd face.

T. S. Eliot (Ash Wednesday, 1930)