Friday 23 January 2009

small romantic manifesto






the snow takes the leaf out of its round, heart-like shape, which is nothing but the soft membrane of our habitual eye, and returns it to the verge of being, that one second preluding life.










13 comments:

  1. nice photo...soft and sharp.

    Thought you might ike this:

    'you pretime for me,
    you me in the nothing of the night'
    ---Celan.

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  2. b, I haven't imagined that you would comment here, I was sure this was not your kind of pictures :-)

    thank you.

    'I hear they call life
    the only refuge.'

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  3. No, you're right..and so (irritatingly) perceptive. But I really do like the softness in the background.

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  4. yes, irritatingly :-P but b, I already know I have the talent of getting on your nerves :-)

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  5. these photos bring us to the verge of being

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  6. they open breathing, evoke lungs for me, so beautiful, as if the day could become Inspired again .

    Celan...

    Flower

    one more word
    like flower
    and the axe
    will swing
    over open ground

    ..

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  7. As opposed to your other posts, which are, er, small romantic manifestos...

    Do you know everyone's kind of pictures by now, then? how presumptuous ;-)

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  8. zuma :-P

    have we regained our famous sarcasm this night? :-)

    are you perhaps suggesting that all my pictures are romantic? hmmm... :-)
    when I wrote 'manifesto' I didn't mean so much these images here, but I wanted to stress the fact that my text should be taken as a small pastiche of a romantic ars poetica, especially this opposition between the every day eye and the poetic vision which is able to go beyond, to the realm of truth.

    and oh yes, I am arrogant like that :-P I imagine to know everything
    (just teasing you, perhaps :-)

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  9. fff, ma tres chere, if you say this then I don't know what to do, except nodding gratefully.

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  10. mansuetude, your words are always inspiring, you have such a deep and immediate empathy with the world a picture opens, such a strong connection...

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  11. I love the leaves - the thorny (?) or at least bristly sides contrast with with the flat centre. The second one is my favourite...

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  12. yes, sz, these leaves are fabulous, I agree. even without snow.

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  13. these photos are gorgeous! so many lovely photos here but the light in these photos is just captivating. so lovely!

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