Requiem for Rusalka

Ville d'Avray, 1870, Camille Corot

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth. So without experiencing things, should I not find life?

Luis Tristán - Trinity (‘Not Gottes’ type) (1624).

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“In some parts of Germany there was a very moving devotion that contemplated the Not Gottes (“poverty of God”).” “an impressive image representing the suffering Father, who, as Father, shares inwardly the sufferings of the Son.”

I have no words to describe the feeling of being in this magical forest with these ancient, magnificent beauties