To become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind
and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams.
in that journey, he discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is.
He has to become a vagabond of dreams.
Some get lost and never come back. But those that do, are ready to face whatever may come.
You are a Cohiuano now. go back to your people.
Give them more than what they ask for.
Give them a Song.
Tell them everything you see.... Everything you feel.
Come back a whole man.
text : from the movie
Embrace of the Serpent, Directed by Ciro Guerra, 2015
image : stills from the film
* trailer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ff7TcnqHUc
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Great minds discuss
ideas.
Average minds discuss
events.
Small minds discuss people.
text : Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
image : The artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset erect "Van Gogh’s Ear" at Rockefeller Center in New York, 2016
online :
designboom / art
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that
the spiritual crisis
pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by
a change in our world view.
We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment
are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which
people
feel
their
oneness
with animate nature and all of creation
text : Albert Hofmann 1906-2008 was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first known person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
image : Hyperreal Whale beaches on the banks of the Seine river, Paris, 2017
by Captain Boomer Collective, a Belgian activist art group. This installation comes to to raise Environmental Awareness.
video :
A sculpture of a beached sperm whale
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A rowan like a lipsticked girl.
Between the by-road and the main road
Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance
Stand off among the rushes.
There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To
the
music
of
what happens.
text : Seamus Heaney, "Song", 1979
photos : Syncopath, A Stormy Day, Tel Aviv Beach, 2013
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In song and dance,
man expresses himself as a member of a higher community.
He has forgotten how to walk and speak,
and is on the way toward
flying
up
into
the
air, dancing.
And,
those who dance,
appear insane,
to those who cannot hear the music.
text : Nietzsche Friedrich, "
The Birth of Tragedy", 1872.
images : from Reich Richter Pärt, The Shed , N.Y. 2019
Galerie article: Shed's new multidisciplinary venue opens with a performative exhibition, a collaboration between Steve Reich Gerhard Richter and Arvo Pärt.
videos :
* “Reich Richter Pärt” (04:10)
* Steve Reich on Composing Reich/Richter (03:37)
* Rehearsing Reich Richter Pärt (02:45)
*
Steve Reich-Gerhard Richter, performed by Ensemble Signal (07:49)
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Je
est
un Autre.
*
I
is
an Other.
text : Arthur Rimbaud
(Wiki) 1854-1891
images : Frida Kahlo (
Wiki) 1907-1954 self portraits and photography
the espression: Je est un autre / I is another = appears in two letters of Rimbaud:
1.
Lettre de Rimbaud à Georges Izambard May 13th,1871
2.
Letter to Paul Demeny May 15th, 1871 - where Rimbaud states:
"Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens."
"I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses."
*
video + text of this letter in French
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The way towards ‘wisdom’ or towards ‘freedom’
is the way towards
your
inner being.
This
is
the simplest
definition of metaphysics.
text : Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher.
image : Doug Aitken, "
Don't Forget to Breathe" installation, Santa Monica, L.A., 2019
youtube : Private View: Doug Aitken
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion,
it is easy in solitude to live after our own,
but
the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness
the
independence
of
solitude.
text : Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, from essay "
Self-Reliance", 1841
image : Spencer Tunik mass nude photography in Hull East Yorkshire, 2016
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jul/09/sea-of-hull-by-spencer-
The Guardian:
Thousands of people gathered at dawn in Hull to be painted blue and photographed for installation celebrating city’s relationship with the sea.
Youtube :
Sea of Hull (08:00)
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In song and dance,
man expresses himself as a member of a higher community.
He has forgotten how to walk and speak,
and is on the way toward
flying
up
into
the
air, dancing.
He himself now walks about, enchanted, in ecstasy,
like the gods he saw walking in his dreams. He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art : in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the primordial unity ! ....... and,
Those who dance, appear insane, to those who cannot hear the music.
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text : Nietzsche Friedrich, "
The Birth of Tragedy", 1872.
image : Omo valley people, Ethiopia, Africa.
about 200,000 indigenous people (8 different tribes) live in this area of The Omo River (also called Omo-Bottego) in southern Ethiopia which is the largest river outside the Nile Basin.
* video: Omo Valley
Surma Tribe Village Dance
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