Journal of a Nobody
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.
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Kurt Schwitters, Mz 231 Miss Blanche, 1923, collage.
Kurt Schwitters was born 125 years ago today (June 20). As a pioneer of collage, Schwitters had an important influence on Rauschenberg. After seeing a show of Schwitters’ works at Sidney Janis gallery in 1959, Bob said “I felt like he made it all just for me.”
(Source: artchive.com)
