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thebodyasconduit: Emerson said that a library is a magic...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:49:26 -0500

Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them.

When the book lies unopened, it is literally, geometrically, a volume, a thing among things.
When we open it, when the book surrenders itself to its reader, the aesthetic event occurs.

And even for the same reader the same book changes, for the change;
we are the river of Heraclitus, who said that the man of yesterday is not the man of today, who will not be the man of tomorrow.

We change incessantly, and each reading of a book, each rereading, each memory of that rereading, reinvents the text.
The text too is the changing river of Heraclitus.

- Jorge Luis Borges

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And this, too, is how I feel about making photographs, about the body and the memory of the body.
This is why I photograph my body and your body and your bodies. And ours.

Perhaps the body is not just a thing, yes, perhaps.
But it is a shape, always a geometry.

The surrender of the book is the vulnerability of a body.
My body and your body and your bodies. And ours.

May 2013

film

realityayslum: William Klein Sandra in Lights 1961

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:49:11 -0500

realityayslum:

William Klein

Sandra in Lights

1961

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Fri, 24 May 2013 14:47:46 -0500

Portrait from Twenty-Twelve: Julia R. @juliaroven #tbt #portrait...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:30:48 -0500

Portrait from Twenty-Twelve: Julia R. @juliaroven #tbt #portrait #holga #houston

Portrait from Twenty-Twelve: Mujan N. @mnoroozi #tbt #portrait...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:14:17 -0500

Portrait from Twenty-Twelve: Mujan N. @mnoroozi #tbt #portrait #flowers #houston

streetetiquette: Portrait by melodie jeng - details street...

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:34 -0500

streetetiquette:

Portrait by melodie jeng - details street style

"As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love."

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:12 -0500

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”

- Anne Sexton (via align)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 03:12:21 -0500

5centsapound: Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi As a photographer,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:11:57 -0500

5centsapound:

Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi

As a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist, ‘Maïmouna’ Patrizia Guerresi reveals unique and authentic sensibilities in her narration of the beauty and subtleties of racial diversity and multiculturalism. Over an established career, she has developed her own symbolism, which combines cosmological and ancestral traditions belonging to various European, African, and Asian cultures. Her personal commitment to Baifall Sufism has led her to produce an aesthetic that is able to bridge time, space and civilisations, as well as figuration and abstraction.

The human body is seen as the nucleus and temple of the soul, a place that houses a delicate, higher awareness; the very conduit for encompassing natural and cosmic forces. More about mysticism than any singular religion, her work is visionary in that it restores those elusive qualities of sacredness and unity in our frequently dehumanising and fragmented contemporary visual world. Her classic iconographic style explores the universality of human experience and reclaims the often hidden nurturing powers of feminine energy. Presented as a kind of free flowing epic, the viewer is left to read the significance of her imagery and quietly meditate on its potential to personally engage with its audience. As if her figures were speaking directly to each one of us.

From her earliest experiments with the physicality and archetypal imprinting of the psyche, through to her latest, evermore metaphoric ‘inner constellations’, Maïmouna insists on a cross-cultural discourse and an expansion of the boundaries that normally dictate our individual attitudes. She invites us to see further and to look deeper – past skin colour, preconceptions, and ethnic landscapes – into the wider paradigm of inclusion. She leads us through apparently simple notions of dimensionality into the exquisite, mystical and fragile complexities of life from within. - Rosa Maria Falvo,