ethereal aesthetik

i think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain --- christo

looking at van gogh

For an animal its natural environment and habitat
are a given; for a man - despite the faith of the empiricists -
reality is not a given: it has to be continually sought out, held -
I am tempted to say salvaged.

- from The Production Of The World
by John Berger

viand

"Suffering is , in effect
the barrier which unconsciousness, matter
sets up against consciousness, spirit;
it is the resistance to will, the limit
which the visible universe imposes
upon God."

- Miguel de Unamuno

what do poets know?

"Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal Darkness buries All."

-alexander pope (an adamant catholic poet in anticatholic england - early 18th century)

an infinite variable

where there is hope there is sufficient means