I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.
Olafur Eliasson
“Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.” - Audre Lorde
‘Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?’
— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
The things of this world
exist, they are;
you can't refuse them.
To bear and not to own;
to act and not lay claim;
to do the work and let it go
is what makes it stay.
— Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Clarity is kindness
When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back - Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The strange presence of absent beings - Annie Ernaux, The Years
“I read a lot. I listen a lot. I think a lot. But so little remains. The books I read, their plots, their protagonists fade… Names of people, books, cities. They are already fading away. Even the titles of films I’ve seen recently…they have already faded… Everything that I see, or read, or listen to, connects, translates into moods, bits of surroundings, colors… With me, everything is mood, mood, or else…simply nothingness.” — Jonas Mekas
Giorgio Armani // "Detail is essential . . . it is often the minutia that makes the difference, not the great idea as those are rare”
This is what is happening right now. This is the best thing I can do. — Brad Stulberg
Ask yourself, what are you seeing everywhere? This is perhaps the clearest reflection of your identity” — Benjamin Hardy
