lovely decay

Be fascinated by the theoretical limits of the moment. What starts out as beauty soon becomes corroded into a cacophony of defeat, leaving only a sense of decadence and the inevitability of decay. By rejecting an objective standard, you are confronted with the conditioning of your own perception and may (perhaps) reconsider your unconsciously biased position. These works are saturated with obviousness, irony, clichés and bad literary associations. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying social media in exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our salon society, they seduce the viewer into a world of ongoing disequilibrium. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human condition in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in entropy.

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“I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.” -Anne Frank

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“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.” - Juliusz Słowacki

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”A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: Aren't you tired of waiting Yes, answers the rose, but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”

-Paulo Coelho

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“At the Moor Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper In the stillness of the moor. In the gray sky A flock of wild birds follows; Slanting over gloomy waters. Turmoil. In decayed hut The spirit of putrescence flutters with black wings. Crippled birches in the autumn wind. Evening in deserted tavern. The way home is scented all around By the soft gloom of grazing herds; Apparition of the night; toads plunge from brown waters.”

-Georg Trakl

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“I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.”

-Charles Baudelaire

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“First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes the collapse of humanity. Then comes dissolution of the sun. Then comes entropy.”

-Welcome To Night Vale

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“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”

-Robert Frost

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“When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay” -Octave Mirbeau

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The rare non-manicure pic. Enjoy the beauty in destruction.

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“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

-Cormac McCarthy

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

-John Stuart Mills

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“Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.”

  -Charles Darwin

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“Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

- William Shakespeare

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“An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.”

-Kaoru Kurimoto

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“The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.” 

-Nathalia Crane

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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

-Oscar Wilde

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"It’s Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin’ It’s the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin’ It’s time to face your final destiny”

-Al Yankovic