“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,374 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
Collection
Venice
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“I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts, whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them, and live life somehow.”
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“Life is what you make of it. So do something. Do something brave. Do something unexpected. But do something, because you have four women in a jail cell who are desperately hoping for a reason to believe there’s still a reason to believe. So do something, goddammit, because this isn’t the end of the freaking story.”
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Curtain call at La Traviata -
René Magritte, The Empire of Light, 1954 -
Anish Kapoor, Shooting Into the Corner, 2008-2009 -
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac -
Ulysses, 2nd century BCE (foreground); Marc Quinn, HISTORYNOW: Shaman Triptych, BBC News, 2021 -
Anselm Kiefer, These writings, when burned, will finally give some light, 2022 -
Giannantonio Selva, Teatro La Fenice, 1792 -
Ceiling above altar, c. 836
