The animal consumed
from the inside.
What have I done
to survive—
wrist bones
still wrenched,
electricity
of breath
wired
through my teeth.
— Hadara Bar-Nadav, from “Wolf Child,” published in Tupelo Quarterly
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David Bowie, The Thin Blue Duke
Based off of this post by @medi-honey
“No one asks you where you came from. Or how you got here. Which is good, because you could not answer anyhow. You just appear, with an insatiable hunger to touch things that do not belong to you.”
Helena Almeida (Lisboa, Portugal, 1934)
In 1958, during a conference at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, Mark Rothko listed the seven necessary ingredients for “a recipe of a work of art”:
1. A clear awareness of death. All art is in relation with death
2. Sensuality, necessary to represent the world in a concrete way
3. Tension, that is to say the conflicts or desires that in art are dominated the very moment they are shown
4. Irony, a modern ingredient. A form of self deletion, and at the same time of self analysis, through which man can, at least for a moment, get away from his destiny
5. Wit, humour
6. Some grams of ephemeral and some grams of chance
7. A ten percent of hope… only if you need it; Greek didn’t have
