between the shadow and the soul

Leonard Weisgard (USA, 1916-2000)

Burmese Cat, n.d.

"Distinguished by its dark, flat base, this typical summer cumulus, seen at close range, may change dramatically into a thunderhead. The wind is gusty and a shower threatens."

Cloud and weather atlas. 1944.

“Kissing the ground”, 

An Ethiopian orthodox nun praying at the entrance to one of the many rock churches of Lalibela.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno // “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”