stages


As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue. so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready , heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
to find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.

Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.

Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.

- Hermann Hesse

. inspired by different Georgias .

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St. George slaying the Dragon. 15th century cloisonne enamel on gold

(National Art Museum of Georgia)

1770s Georgian Rose Cut Diamond Ring

chairs

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Windsor Sackback Chair

rabbit chair

by

Kazuyo Sejima+Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

now reading

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a bedroom with just a bed

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Jørn Utzon

Juul Møller & Hindsgavl

Nothing is original . Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings

photographs

poems

dreams

random conversations

architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows .

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul .

If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic . Authenticity is invaluable ; originality is non-existent . And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it .

In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said, "It's not where you take things from, it's where you take things to ."


- Jim Jarmusch

the swing of things

the taste of blood

the tongue's percussion

the space between buildings


selections from
josh druckman

Art grows out of each particular situation

and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up.


- El Anatsui