“I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,410 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Kannodo Hall 
Five-storied pagoda 
Nakamise shopping street -
Exhibition view, The Future 50 Years from Now 
Exhibition view, The Future 50 Years from Now 
Exhibition view, 1000 Years into the Future -
Entrance gate 
Kaku-un-tei 
Path to Kiyomasa’s Well -
The Misawa House, mid-19th century 
Kokagesan Shrine, 1863 
The Kitamura House, 1687 -
Mina Tabei, Rotating Landscapes, 2026 
Suda Yoshihiro, Morning Glory, 2026 (foreground); YAMAGUCHI Akira, An-An 3: A Plan for Hermitage, 2026 (background) 
Shin Egashira, London Hōjōki — Atlas / Afterimage, 2026 
Yusuke Omuro + Kawacho-Gumi, Storage Shed ‘Relocation’ Project from Literature, 2026 -
Nam June Paik, TV Fish, 1975 
Nam June Paik, Cage’s Forest/Forest Revelation (partial), 1993 
Nam June Paik, New Candle, 1993 -
Kannon Bodhisattva -
Tachū Naitō, Tokyo Tower, 1958 -
teamLab, Dark Existence within Chromatic Order, 2026 
teamLab, Bubble Universe: Spherical Crystallized Light, Wobbling Light, and Environmental Light – One Stroke, 2024 
teamLab, Dark Waves: Born in the Darkness, Return to the Darkness, 2024 -
Takeshi Andō, Statue of Hachikō, 1948 -
“We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.”
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“Dedicating the new museum to ‘the cause of peace,’ FDR took up the theme that Barr had been pushing ever since his initial encounters with Nazism: the essential connection between modern art and liberal government. ‘The arts cannot thrive except where men are free to be themselves and to be in charge of the discipline of their own energies and ardors,’ Roosevelt said. ‘The conditions for democracy and for art are one and the same.’”
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“If I withdrew my friendship from everyone who had spoken ill of me, my address book would be empty!”
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“Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.”
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The Great Elephant Migration, Ruth Ganesh (creative director) and Dr. Tarsh Thekaekara (conservation researcher) -
“Rosamund has no interest in French. If she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she shouts.”
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“‘Lie’ is so unmusical a word.”
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“You don’t mind my taking over the flowers, do you? Cora’s flowers always look more suited to a first communion…in southern Italy.”
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