Imagery > Paintings
Two paintings, some kind of portraits, have been added to the little gallery. And they would like to look at you with their dead, ahungered eyes… Please, grant them the pleasure, pay them a visit.
«Celui qui désespère des événements est un lâche, mais celui qui espère en la condition humaine est un fou.»
“He who despairs of the events is a coward, but he who has hope for the human condition is a fool.”
Albert Camus, Carnets, Tome 2 (Janvier 1942 – mars 1951)
Smile your vacuous smile and continue
feeding on the waste ’cause they say all is well
Take another spoon, nourish the nescience
sip insipid imbecility ’cause they tell
…might be produced, limited to small numbers with signature on the back and hand-numbered. Moreover there might be unlimited prints, without signature and at another location, that is to be determined.
Tell us your thoughts about this matter.
Best viewed on cold concrete…
The air is wrapped in sickened veils
and filled with cries of Thought and Memory | continue reading …
Some photographs of urban scenery have been added, portraying aspects of the bleak ambience accomplished by the pride of creation.
“Die Erde, sagte er, hat eine Haut; und diese Haut hat Krankheiten. Eine dieser Krankheiten heisst zum Beispiel: ‘Mensch.’ ”
“The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called: ‘man.’ ”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Zweiter Theil, Von grossen Ereignissen, (1883–1885)
In the Photography section four additional images are on display, namely Vestiges I – III and Uprooted.
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
…and presents imagery and writings to illustrate & accompany the ubiquitous demise.
At this peculiar place, from time to time, more images and perhaps writings will accrue from perception and acrid (un)conciousness. May they bewilder and disconcert, question and challenge…
“The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)