Blush is the Court.
On the heels of a cursory aesthetic on a tiny island.
Ignotum per ignotius: Non enim excursus hic ejus, sed opus ipsum est.

“Hasty and awkward creatures of the moment, it is we who interrupt the action of the gods. In the palaces of Eleusis and Phthia Demeter and Thetis initiate rituals over high flames and heavy smoke. But Metaneira always bursts in from the royal quarters, hair loose, terrified, and Peleus, scared, always intervenes.”

— (C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)

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“Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible. The very nature of graphic art lures us to abstraction, readily and with reason. It gives the schematic fairytale quality of the imaginary and expresses it with great precision. The purer the graphic work, that is, the more emphasis it puts on the basic formal elements, the less well-suited it will be to the realistic representation of visible things.”

— Paul Klee

1 year ago

“A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be. Like Saint Jerome, a writer should work in his cell. Turn the back. Writing is a view of the spirit. “The world is my representation.” Humanity lives in its fiction. This is why a conqueror always wants to transform the face of the world into his image. Today, I even veil the mirrors.”

— Blaise Cendrars. 

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