Fig. 1
I am considering the implications of stillness but then you leave and a part of me goes with you
Fig. 2
Pendulum - I trace your arrival only to be scarred again when you depart
Fig. 3
the tender bristle of impermanence brushes over me
“If only I could move in and out of nonexistence to a space between places” (Leaning)
Fig. 5
“Can a trace become the thing it traces, secure as ever, real as ever—a chosen set of echo-fragments?” (Howe 29)
Fig. 6
“Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.” - Marcus Aurelius
Fig. 7
“The index asserts nothing: it only says “There!”” - Charles Sanders Peirce
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
“At the same time as a human is in the world, the human is in conditionality. There is a direct connection between the existence of the world and a person’s conditionality.” - Blaise Pascal
“The old hospital wall with its grey-green weathering, its cracks and stains in which a thousand frescoes could be fancied, who responded to it, who looked into its soul, who loved it, who found the charm of its colors ever delicately dying away?”- Harry Heller, Steppenwolf
Fig. 10
“ I am a poet, a seeker, and a confessor, obligated to truth and sincerity.
I have a charge, albeit small and confined: to help other seekers to
Understand and to cope with the world, if only by assuring them that they are not alone.”
- Hermann Hesse, 1950
Fig.11
“Why didn’t I appreciate it while I had it? Because then, I sometimes think, I hadn’t had it yet. Only what slips through one’s fingers, only what is never expressed in words, has no thoughts, exists completely. That is the price of proximity: you don’t see it. Don’t know it’s there. Then it’s over, then you see it.” - (Knausgaard 110)
Fig. 12
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. “ - Carl Sagan