Everything

 

How can I tell you everything that is in my heart.
Impossible to begin.
Enough.
No.
Begin.

Maira Kalman   first words of The Principles of Uncertainty

not what I think but what I know

 

 

The world is not what I think

but what I know.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

the undersides

the underside of the leaf
cool in shadow
sublimely unemphatic
smiling of innocence

the frailest stems
quivering in light
bend and break
in silence

this poem, like the paintings, is not really about nature
it is not about what is seen

it is about what is known forever in the mind

Agnes Martin

and also the stars

 

Understand that you are
another world in miniature
and that you are
the sun, the moon,
and also the stars.
J.E. Cirlot

the earth

a circle with a cross in the centre of it represents the earth

sanctuary

 

art needs to be received by face to face encounters
maker and receiver

'we should remember that we cannot perceive our 3 dimensionality or what is alive about ourselves, and we cannot see our own faces.  we continually require the affirmation of others to testify that we are forms occupying space'

'what the practice of art in general might be for is the carrying forward of a practice of ethical encounters between persons.  art offers a sanctuary for such future encounters'

Susan Stewart

you are the perfect age

 

I am old but I am forever young at heart.
We are always the same age inside.
Know that you are the perfect age.
Each year is special and precious, you can only live it once.
Do not regret growing older, it's a privlege denied to many.

Richard Gere