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An Introduction, an Anthology of Images

– Welcome to my little room!! Sejam bem-vindos!! –

“True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an inter-subjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and though them, all the rest.”

(Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception)

“Belief in inspiration. – Artists have an interest in the existence of a belief in the sudden occurrence of ideas, in so-called inspirations; as though the idea of a work of art, a poem, the basic proposition of a philosophy flashed down from heaven like a ray of divine grace. In reality, the imagination of a good artist or thinker is productive continually, of good, mediocre and bad things, but his power of judgement, sharpened and practiced to the highest degree, rejects, selects, knots together; as we can now see from Beethoven’s notebooks how the most glorious melodies were put together gradually and as it were culled out of many beginnings. He who selects less rigorously and likes to give himself up to his imitative memory can, under the right circumstances, become a greater improviser; but artistic improvisation is something very inferior in relation to the serious and carefully fashioned artistic idea. All great artists have been great workers, inexhaustible not only in invention but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.”

 (Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human)

Beyond you

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?”

(Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights)

 The room

To see IV

 Dance, dance…

 The light VI

That place

Strange

Wind

Shadow VIII

Shadow VI

“What do you plan to do with all your stories?”

By living

 A feeling

Be still

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

(Ansel Adams)

Trago em mim / I have it in me

Fogo

 Lazy and feline

There are days when the music in my head stops

Circles

Blue dance

Imaginary Photobooth II

 “The true fight against oneself is against one’s heaviness, one’s gravity.”

(Susan Sontag, writing on Bresson)

 

 16 weeks and 3 days (II)

22 weeks and 1 day (II)

36 weeks (II)

To belong – Me and Alice