The Ripples Of Being Have No Alpha Or Omega

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) - Target, 1958


'Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.'

Blaise Pascal

Turner's Tempest

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - Shade and Darkness: The Evening of the Deluge, 1843


"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

Blaise Pascal

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Henry David Thoreau

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."

John Berger

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

e. e. cummings

The Week in Review


Films:

Damnation - d. Bela Tarr (2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies - d. Bela Tarr (1987)

Books:

Genet: A Biography by Edmund White
Saint-Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre
A Thief's Journal by Jean Genet

Music:

I Will Not Be Sad In This World (1990) - Djivan Gasparyan
Ask Me No Questions (1994) - Djivan Gasparyan
Apricots from Eden (1996) - Djivan Gasparyan
Black Rock (1998) - Djivan Gasparyan
Armenian Fantasies (2000) - Djivan Gasparyan
Moon Shines At Night (2001) - Djivan Gasparyan

Oh, Nothing

Lucio Fontana - Spatial Concept, Attesa (1966)


"God made everything out of nothing but the nothingness shows through."

Paul Valery

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

Blaise Pascal

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

Samuel Beckett