A few quotes from some reading I've been doing over the past few weeks. Been thinking about what I might want to do for fourth year - I have an idea although its still in its early stages so I'll be keeping it quiet until I'm more decided on a few things! I've taken some photographs, but am now waiting for the sun to come out so I can take some more...
"Death is the sculptor of the ravishing landscape, the terrible mother, the damp creator of life, by whim we are all one day devoured." - Sally Mann
"A beautiful subject can be the object of rueful feelings, because it has aged or decayed or no longer exists. All photographs are Momento Mori. To take a photo is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt." - Susan Sontag
"The descent toward death is an unconscious flight from pain and want. It is an eternal struggle against suffering and repression." - Neil Leach
"When we get to the root of this life, behind the drama of the passage into existence, we find nothing besides life conjoined to death." - Neil Leach
"What remains, what continues to speak in spite of everything, are residual odours, unreal dilated shapes, barely intuitable presences of missing bodies." - Michela Bracciali
"What strikes me is that after death, the subject undergoes a terrible and irreversible mutation that transforms him into an object. Memories, thoughts, suggestions, certainties and fears are, in fact, fatally destined to oblivion. What remains are merely things." - Michela Bracciali
"The world of the living breaks against the silence of the dead and, as Elie Wiesel said, it is to them that the past belongs." - Michela Bracciali
Monday, 9 July 2012
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