The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
Detail of a single, hand-crafted porcelain seed from “The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds.” The installation on view at Tate Modern, London through May 2.
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Detail of a single, hand-crafted porcelain seed from “The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds.”
best always.
Detail of a single, hand-crafted porcelain seed from “The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds.”
i wish they had been real seeds.
Detail of a single, hand-crafted porcelain seed from “The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds.”