Little Dance Finished :)

Celebrating the city’s birthday at the Central Market in Kirov (1981)

“Loss has a wider choice of directions Than the other thing.”

— W.S. Merwin, from “The Nails,” The Moving Target (Macmillan Pub Co, 1963)

Fredrik Paulsen :: Mikado

The Italians have a word for the store of poems you have in your head: a gazofilacio […] in its original language it actually means a treasure chamber of the mind. The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life. And unlike paintings, sculptures or passages of great music, they do not outstrip the scope of memory, but are the actual thing, incarnate.

Clive James, ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life,’ The Guardian (26 September 2020)

Anastasia Savinova

Beautiful architectural collages, very neatly-organized.

Poesia concreta. Brossa, Iglésias del Marquet i Viladot, Petite Galerie, Lleida, 1971 [Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona]

Structural violence creates lopsided structures of the imagination. Those on the bottom of the heap have to spend a great deal of imaginative energy trying to understand the social dynamics that surround them—including having to imagine perspectives of those on the top—while the latter wander about largely oblivious to much of what is going on around them. That is, the powerless not only end up doing most of the actual, physical labor that is required to keep society running, they also do most the interpretive labor as well.

— David Graeber, Dead Zones of the Imagination

Close eye. Trust. Concentrate. Think: only tree. Make a perfect picture down to last pine needle. Wipe your mind clean. Everything but tree. Nothing exists whole world. Only tree.

marvin gaye, 1973, topanga canyon home

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