“‘A metronome, like a clock, inscribed an artificial division into equal segments upon an otherwise undifferentiated movement; rhythm, by contrast, is intrinsic to the movement itself.’”
“…Style ‘never quite gets there’, it ‘never stays’. It is ‘always in contest, in motion, unresolved, discursive, in process’.”
“All societies are IN history, the difference lies in how they respond to it. Those who want to sustain a stable structure must fight the contingent, non-repetitive events of history, whose cumulative effects are to produce economic and social upheavals that undermine the existing structure if culture.”
“Our humanity is not prior to what it creates.”
“The paradox of modern landscapes is that they are dehumanising because they are excessively humanised. There is almost nothing in them that has not been conceived and planned so that it will serve those human needs which can be assessed in terms of efficiency or improved material conditions. But there is almost nothing in them that can happen spontaneously, autonomously or accidentally, or which expresses human emotions and feelings.”
Kagi - associated other.
Examples -
Parent and Child (Parent and Kagi)
Dan and his wife (Dan and Kagi)
Hunter and dog (Hunter and Kagi)
“The expectation and the association are determined by cultural familiarity and cultural values.” - Dan Everett. Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes.
We really ought to have a word for this.
“Peter Barnes describes commons as a set of assets that have two characteristics: they are all gifts, and they are all shared. A shared gift is one we receive as members of a community, as opposed to individually. Examples of such gifts include air, water, ecosystems, languages, music, holidays, money, law, mathematics, parks and the Internet.”
I went to Milan Furniture Fair and came back with this photo of a cat.
This is Gammy, the cat.
Gammy
Hoi An - Vietnam
One of my favourite photographs from my trip to Vietnam. Unfortunately I’ve lost 50% of the photos from this trip. Lesson learnt - backup EVERYTHING.
Hoi An
“A trunk never turns into a crocodile, no matter how long it stays in the water”
“It depends on those who pass by whether I be tomb or treasure, whether I speak or am silent depends entirely on you friend, do not enter without desire.”
Central American Adventure
Costa Rica -> Nicaragua -> Guatemala
Full batch of photos to follow.
