They Teach Us To Prey Forgiveness But I Won"t Swallow What They Feed Us

Edward Hopper "El palacio" (Saltillo, México)

George Ferrandi

it felt like i knew you…, 2012 - ongoing

I ride the NYC subway trains, usually in the evening when the seats are full. I focus on the shape of the space between the person sitting next to me and myself. I attempt to mentally and emotionally re-sculpt that space. In my mind, I reshape it- from the stiff and guarded space between strangers to the soft and yielding space between friends. I direct all my energy to this space between us. When the space palpably changes, and I completely feel like the stranger sitting next to me is my friend, I rest my head on that person’s shoulder…

»eunoia« by christian bök (+)

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the word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in english that contains all five vowels. directly inspired by the oulipo (l’ouvroir de littérature potentielle), a french writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has a as its only vowel, the second chapter e, etc. each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the i is egotistical and romantic, the o jocular and obscene, the e elegiac and epic.

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University Library (1956) Mexico City, Mexico. Architects: O´Gorman, Saavedra, Martinez de Velasco.

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Imagination may lead us along a path of dreams and associations, transforming our thoughts in response to some perception; or it may focus on the presented object, transforming our perception in response to our thoughts. Just where wine is situated between these two exercises of our imaginative powers is one of the deep questions that all winos must ask, if they are to understand their dear companion. Is wine like daydreams or like art? Does it point inwards to our subjective impressions and memories, or outwards to the world – bringing order as Tintoretto, Wordsworth or Mozart brought order, by reshaping the objects of our perception?

R. Scruton, I drink, therefore I am

Barber 'Mujer y gatos'

By Joan Barber

Banksy Fans Interact with His Clever NYC Street Art alice, mymodernmet.com

While the ever-elusive street artist Banksy con­tin­ues to put up his clever works all over New York, his fans have been flock­ing to them, snap­ping pic­tures of the price­less pieces before they're gone (or defaced). Some have even put their own…

Banksy/NY

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