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James Olney, Metaphors of Self: the meaning of autobiography

Traumatic memories are the unassimilated scraps of overwhelming experiences, which need to be integrated with existing mental schemes, and be transformed into narrative language. It appears that, in order for this to occur successfully, the traumatized person has to return to the memory often in order to complete it. [...] In the case of complete recovery, the person does not suffer anymore from the reappearance of traumatic memories in the form of flashbacks, behavioral reenactments, and so on. Instead the story can be told, the person can look back at what happened; he has given it a place in his life history, his autobiography, and thereby in the whole of his personality. Many traumatized persons, however, experience long periods of time in which they live, as it were, in two different worlds: the realm of the trauma and the realm of their current, ordinary life.

B.A. Van Der Kolk and Otto Van Der Hart, “The Intrusive Past: the Flexibility of Memory and the Engraving of Trauma”

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PEINTURE, 13 DÉCEMBRE 1985 PIERRE SOULAGES // 1985 [oil on panel, in 2 parts | overall: 165 x 102 cm.]

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"HANGING STRUCTURE 24 D" SOL LEWITT // 1991 [painted wood | 119 ¼ x 24 ¼ x 24 ¼"]

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THE YOUNG GODS // LANDING [HEAVEN DECONSTRUCTION, 1996]

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulu

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“UNTITLED (PAINTED DESSERT)” FREDERICK SOMMER // 1940 [gelatin silver print | 7 9/16 × 9 1/2"]

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JENNY HOLZER / "CONCLUSION (1/6)" / 2016 [aquatint and white ground etchings | 27 × 21 1/2"]

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FRANCIS BACON / "CRUCIFIXION" / 1933 [oil on canvas | 24 3/4 x 19"]

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ANNA PARK / "HOUSE RULES" / 2020 [charcoal on paper mounted on panel | 72 x 60"]

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The best we can do, the best that has ever been done, is to recognize the implacability of the laws that rule the universe, and contemplate as calmly as we can the nothingness from which we are come and into which we shall all disappear. The one consolation that we hold, though it is one which may be illusory too, consists in the belief that when death comes, fear and hope are at an end. Then wonder ceases; the insoluble no longer perplexes; space is lost; the infinite is blank; the farce is done.

Edgar Saltus, The Anatomy of Negation