caressing...

"It is important to be able to, when appropriate, go beyond the pure facilitation and “caressing” of art. Being subservient can be good, even useful, but sometimes we also need to take up the challenge of art and answer back. Which for me means taking art and artists super seriously."

- maria lind, see here 

image: my favourite critic, monsieur c. monster of "monster-piece theatre"

an old man's grapes

"I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, from "The World as Will and Representation" 1819

"she lay asleep..."

she lay asleep in a pearl at the bottom of the sea. All round her grew beautiful Obelia seaweeds and thousands of rainbow-coloured fish guarded her night and day. There she lay for years and years, and while she slept a wonderful wisdom grew in her, though her little body remained the same. I can't tell you why or how, but it was so.

- May Gibbs