sub rosa, no. 9, 1997. ©Frank Rodick, 1997.
From the series sub rosa, a set of thirteen gelatin silver prints made between 1995 and 1997. Image above published in the current issue (no. 112) of SHOTS Magazine.
Words
Once in a while, people say something beautiful. I don’t know if these words are the truth. More precisely, I don’t know how close or how far these words are from something I’d call the truth. But maybe the words mean something. I just think the words can be beautiful. At this moment, anyway.
Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing…then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait until the incomprehensible power…that has broken you restores you a little; I say a little, for you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.
— Marcel Proust, writing to Georges de Lauris in 1907.
Thanks to Alan Reed for posting.
"I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree."
— Leonard Cohen (via alanreedwrite)
"Her limbs can be agile when she flees from ghosts. At her heels, the wings of terror bear her along. She is quick, for in order to elude the ghosts, to throw them off her track, she must speed ahead faster than her thought thinks."
— Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (via frenchtwist)
(via alanreedwrite)
“We’re all part of the same hypocrisy”: The Wisdom of Michael Corleone
That’s what Michael Corleone tells Pat Geary, the crooked Nevada senator played by G.D. Spradlin in the The Godfather, Part II. Geary is trying to both shake down Corleone and be sanctimonious about it. Turns out to be a mistake on the senator’s part.
It’s one of my very favourite lines in cinema. And it fits more than mobsters and congressmen.
"Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick."
— Red Smith
Tom Howard, The Electrocution of Ruth Snyder, 1928.
"True art has nothing to do with proclamations and is created in silence."
— Marcel Proust (via septembrist)
(Source: fuckyeahproust, via septembrist)
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Louise Bourgeois, from What is the Shape of this Problem? [1999]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lelb9kumlH1qzbcgoo1_500.jpg)
Louise Bourgeois, from What is the Shape of this Problem? [1999]
(via evacuating-heaven)
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
— Albert Camus
Image: Fourth panel from the polyptych Fragments of a celestial abattoir, ©Frank Rodick, 2004.
