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"Everything begs a solution."
- Occurence In The Immediate Unreality, Blecher -
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the human intellect for a private imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term life used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it implies all of existence and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great."
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"One can say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are the world that thinks itself or that the world is at the heart of our flesh. In any case, once a body-world relationship is recognized, there is a ramification of my body and a ramification of the world and a correspondence between its inside and my outside, between my inside and its outside."
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible(Source: poeticsofdeath)
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"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas."
- Alan Watts(Source: silencedohood, via unejeunedemoiselle)
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Guise/Perceptions/Human Reactions/Ideas floating in my head
An attempt to order anxiety in a guise of anything but that.
- visual cortex, perception, sensory and immediate information, unconscious interference, altered/challenged perceptions, pareidolia, nonsense imagery and relationships, objects of absurdity, exploit ambiguity and definability, slippage, associations, forms, seduction of complexity, requirement of space, unintelligence intelligence, human behaviour, human development, undercurrents of quiet absurdity.
- qualia, ineffability, truth and falseness, candid, uncensor, interpretations, suggestion, gestural, greyness, in-between made known, seepage, mind, atopy, flow (psychology), anxiety
Trying to explain the ‘nonsense’ through a created knowledge, created logic
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I’m working on this painting, and it’s driving me crazy.
And some scribble I did on the bus today.
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High ResolutionA wee sketch
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"Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression’s actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it."
- How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen (via thechocolatebrigade)(via lyingseason)
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No idea what I’m drawing.
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"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
- Chuck Palahniuk (via teddymcardle) -
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via romanticegotism) -
"Death has an extreme and definite relation to me and my body and is grounded in me, but it also has no relation to me at all—it is incorporeal and infinitive, impersonal, grounded only in itself."
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Flesh
For I can say in confidence with no ability in providing proof or even coherent logic, that death is not the end of the road. To die is not to return to earth, to become one with soil, to become dust, for being dead means the beginning of eternality. Whether it be hell or heaven, or whatever of the beyond, to cease living is not determined by the destruction of flesh. It could even be a nothingness awaiting. (Sleep is as close to nothingness one can experience yet even sleep has its own life of subconsciousness.) Those who say life on earth is unbearable, those who long to be erased from history, those who are dead, I ponder and dream where they would be, or, are now, and whatever conjured this reasoning, my so called religion, upbringing or road to insanity, I know they are not a once was but are in some form of eternality.
A cruel design by God, god even, for there is no escape. The mind torments.
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Unquiet
Last night, I finished reading Kay Redfeild Jamison’s memoir, The Unquiet Mind. It details her life with manic depressive illness (Bipolar Disorder), before and after her diagnosis. She speaks about being on lithium, her ‘highs’ and ‘lows’. There is a lot of praise and promotion of lithium, I suppose it saved her life. However, if she stops taking lithium, her ‘high’s return magnified, unbearable, as though she is actually insane sometimes and eventually the ‘low’ settles in severely. It made me feel uneasy, to have to rely on medication as a means of functionally normally. That’s all.
LOUISE ZHANG
