Quote: Zora Neale Hurston

"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

storm coming

Quote: BF Skinner

"The difference between rats and people is that when a rat gets shocked at one end of a maze, he never goes there again."

Harvard College Lecture, 1959

the wrong tree

words are things

Quote: Karl Ove Knausgaard

'Knowledge ... is the enemy of meaning.'

from Book 1 of My Struggle

Van Gogh's Ear by Diemut Strebe

Van Gogh's severed ear was 'regrown' from cells of a living relative, the great-great grandson of his brother Theo.  The ear was shaped by bio-artist Diemut Strebe on a 3-D printer and grown at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.  It was shown in June at the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, and will be in New York next year.  Thanks to Danny Ayala for showing it to me www.dannyayala.com

Quote: Salvador Dali

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."

Japanese Tea Garden

James Jones extends attachment theory to religion ...

"If our psychology is inherently relational, it is not antipsychological to see reality as interrelated.  If there is no escaping dependency on a self-object milieu, there is nothing childish about acknowledging connection to a self-sustaining universal matrix.  If selves necessarily stand in relation, it is not necessarily irrational to ask if this complex of selves in relation does not itself stand in relation." 

From Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion

Granted - a poem by Maxine Chernoff

'A film is always like a book and not like a conversation' - Christian Metz

 

As I saw your face nearing

my face, snow fell through

a keyhole and opened the door.

We went inside and watched

windows wax green and gold.

Spring, we decided, was more

oppressive than winter with

its alyssum and clover

and the sheer weight of life

crowding us off the page.

We stayed in bed for years

and took our cures patiently

from each other’s cups.

We read Bleak House and

stored our money in socks.

Nothing opened as we did.

 

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Source: Poetry (January 2014).

Quote: Adam Phillips

"We must learn to desire with guile and without hope; to love in conflict, rather than betraying our desire in fantasies of harmony."

from 'The Master Mind Lectures' in Side Effects, 2006

Quote: Stephen de Staebler

"The performance, the process of making anything - and most certainly art - is the art.  The resulting object commemorates the event."