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Noh Sang-hyun by Keem Sin-ae – Esquire Korea (June 2022)
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“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance? If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing in the same way that you own the beauty of that blue that can never be possessed? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival, just as the mountains cease to be blue when you arrive among them and the blue instead tints the next beyond. Somewhere in this is the mystery of why tragedies are more beautiful than comedies and why we take a huge pleasure in the sadness of certain songs and stories. Something is always far away. The mystic Simone Weil wrote to a friend on another continent, “Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.” For Weil, love is the atmosphere that fills and colors the distance between herself and her friend. Even when that friend arrives on the doorstep, something remains impossibly remote: when you step forward to embrace them your arms are wrapped around mystery, around the unknowable, around that which cannot be possessed. The far seeps in even to the nearest. After all we hardly know our own depths.”
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via weltenwellen)
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“At this stage in my career, I’m not looking for a poem that is completely clear and leaves the world a more comprehensible place. I’m looking for a poem where the surface is clear, so you don’t have to guess what’s happening, but it deepens your experience in the world, which actually becomes stranger and more mysterious over time, rather than more familiar.”
— Edward Hirsch, interviewed by Ben Purkert for Guernica
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Yoshitomo Nara
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Angie Drakopoulos (American, b.1970)
Akasha 2  2012 Acrylic and resin on plexi    via
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Raul de Nieves stands with his work at MOMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens in 2015.
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Kory Martin-Damon. Photography by Beryl Dean Kotula in Transgender Tapestry 1997
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Harvest in apple orchards near Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan, 1972)
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DNA and breeding kimono and obi, by Gofukuyasan
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Adolf Erbslöh (American-Germa, 1881 - 1947)
Positano,1923
Oil on canvas, 94 × 130 cm
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Ukraine’s Pripyat River is Like a Work of Art From Space
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Xavier Comas (1970) - image drawn from his photographic book “The House of the Raja. Splendour and Desolation in Thailand’s Deep South” published by River Books, 2014.
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