Quote: Gregory Bateson

"It takes two to know one."

Cones

Quote: Witold Gombrowicz

"Art consists of writing not what one has to say, but something altogether unexpected."

Sand dunes

RIP Seamus Heaney 1939 - 2013

Now it's high watermark

And floodtide in the heart

And time to go...

What's left to say?

Suspect too much sweet talk

But never close your mind.

It was a fortunate wind

That blew me here. I leave

Half-ready to believe

That a crippled trust might walk

And the half-true rhyme is love.


From The Cure at Troy

Little horse

Three photos by Jonas Bendiksen

I'm reading Zona by Geoff Dyer, which is packed with quotes and references to other people's work, a bit like a David Shields book (Shields did mention Dyer in his reading at Booksmith earlier this year, something about Dyer being the more handsome of the two, which isn't true, incidentally).  The book is a must-read for fans of Stalker, delightful anyway, even if you haven't seen the film, clever, funny, and studded with lovely phrases like 'the permadepths of the present' (where the still-happening past operates in Tarkovsky's Zone-time, as in Aboriginal Dreamtime).  I'm enjoying it a lot.  Here's three images from a photographer Dyer mentions on page 75, Jonas Bendiksen.  The first is apparently Bendiksen's most famous, shot in a place I had never heard of till now, the so-called spacecraft crash zone in Kazakhstan, where space debris comes crashing to earth on a regular basis, and the bits of white fluff are apparently butterflies, though they look more like anemone seeds or dandelion clocks to me ...