"Do or Die"

Hieronymus Bosch

Un rêve plus long que la nuit, Niki De Saint Phalle

Jacob Lawrence

LA ÚLTIMA CENA // THE LAST SUPPER (1976) dir. TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA

LA ÚLTIMA CENA // THE LAST SUPPER (1976) dir. TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA

— Astrid Roemer, On a Woman's Madness

Grey Park - Grey Park (2008)

Mira Fonseca (Otalia de Bahia, 1976)

Terrors are to come. The earth is poisoned with narrow lives. I think of you. What you will live through, or perish by, eats at my heart. What have I done? I need better answers than there are to the pain of coming to see what was done in blindness, loving what I cannot save. Nor, your eyes turning toward me, can I wish your lives unmade though the pain of them is on me.

Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.