abundance

18.10.13

I will...

I will be the cause

of your longest deepest breath,

your relieving sigh.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

Jean-François Lepage, 1998

17.10.13

I ’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.

If certain, when life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.

But, but now, all ignorant of the length
Of time's uncertain wing,
It goads me, like a goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.
-Emily Dickinson
'Rodarte' by Nan Goldin for Grey F/W 2012

15.10.13

happy|sad...

When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.

— Ann Brashares

Jil Sander Spring 1996 by Craig McDean
William Bouguereau’s Êtude Tete de Jeune Fille, 1898

unknown original source

14.10.13

In my secret life….

I saw you this morning,

you were moving so fast.

Can’t seem to loosen my grip

On the past.

And I miss you so much,

there’s no one in sight.

And we’re still making love

In my secret life.

I smile when I am angry,

I cheat and I lie,

I do what I have to do

to get by,

In my secret life.”

― Leonard Cohen

E MOTION by Josefin Arestav

13.10.13

Hidden language...

Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

-Martha Graham

Martha Graham, Lamination by Barbara Morgan, 1935

I have seen a performance by The Martha Graham Dance Company many years ago in Paris and it was incredible captivating and beautiful.

She was a modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. My uncle who was a modern dancer and choreographer himself has danced with and was influenced by her.