In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.
Andrew Sagaldo
The Deafening
64 x 50cm. Oil on canvas. 2011.
Danny Lyon
New York Subway
25 x 20cm. Chromogenic print. 1966.
Henk Visch
The man who saved his own life, looking up
H 50cm. Bronze. 2004.
Walt Whitman – Song of Myself
III
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.
Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
Giuseppe Licari
The World Upside Down
Variable dimensions. Birch trees, metal connections, paint. 2015.
George H. Dillon – As Dancers
As dancers to soft music move
So lovers take one tread in love.
They hardly hear a sound at all
Till suddenly their spirits sprawl
Against a hard hush like a wall:
As dancers when the fiddles fall.
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett was an important exponent of existential nihilism, a philosophical theory, which negates the meaning of human existence and judges it to be futile and absurd. It also holds that there is no guidance to be found in any religious or philosophical system, in other words: “recognize your pointless condition, then learn to bear it.” In contrast to Sartre and Camus, Beckett’s worldview can be described as an infinite deal more nihilistic, which also features prominently in many of his works including his famous play Waiting for Godot.
In the middle of his career, between 1948 and 1949, Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French (original title: En attendant Godot) and later translated it into English, whereby the subtitle A tragiccomedy in two acts was added. Way back then the play was widely criticized for its unusual structure: only two acts, only two main characters and a very minimalistic setting. The play premiered 1953 in Paris and 1955 in London and both French and English critics sang from the same hymnal: “We’ve never seen anything like this” or “this play changed the rules of theatre”. They turned out to be right. Waiting for Godot has since become one of the best known plays of the 20th and 21st century and has fascinated audiences all over the world. (more…)
William Butler Yeats – A Coat
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.
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