Life
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Joy:
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On the Bed of Liveliness
I lie on the bed of liveliness, sit on it, stand, spring on it, cry, scream and laugh, all for the sake of reaching the incompleteness of life and its concrete fragility.
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Man and Flower
With a work I created for an exhibition at the Galerie Joachim Blüher (Cologne, Germany) in the mid 1990s, the interest for questions on human existence was revived. Blüher invited me to participate in a group exhibition he was preparing on the topic of flowers. My initial reaction was reluctance towards making flowers but I…
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Awe and Fright
It is apparently the impossibility of defining love in its essence in truly encompassing manner, what makes many jump in awe and in fright, when the word is spoken.
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Words on the Screen — maleness
Jim Burns: Why are women emotionally and spiritually so much stronger than men? Stella Gibson: Because the basic human form is female. Maleness is a kind of birth defect. The Fall — BBC Serial-Killer Drama (2013-2016) / DSI Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson), responding to her boss, Asst. Chief Constable Jim Burns (John Lynch).
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Words at the Opera — fear
Siegfried: Is it some skill I need? Tell me! What is this “fearing”? Mime: If you’ve never felt that, you don’t know what fear is. Siegfried: How strange a feeling that must be! “Siegfried”Richard Wagner — music and libretto
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Tree, Animal, Man
Questions continue to arise, propellers being life, love, condition, spirit, digression, the refined material, the immaterial, the concept of perfection, of climax, no end. Is it not true that the tree, the animal, and man, all ought to be majuscules, like god?
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When a Day foretells itself in Absence
That was the Richard Wagner week. The New York Metropolitan Opera streamed some of his masterpieces on a daily basis. Today I will be delighting in yesterday’s streaming of Parsifal. Knowing the schedule in advance, has allowed me to prepare each day accordingly, more or less around the operatic work. I knew, therefore, this day…
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Animal Noble Scenario — I
Some humans breathe politics Some politicians breathe humanism
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in Pride
Elevate thyself in pride, and thou shalt be spitting onto thine mirror.
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in a box, in a shell
in a box in a shell with a head and a wonderful substance, making thread I am trying . in a box in a shell close to hell there’s a feeling here given when a life train is ridden in the dark level light there’s more joy — SilaBlume / 1981
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