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Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi series (2012-2013)
What inspired me was a dream I had one day. It was of scenery so amazingly beautiful that it made me almost scared. I woke up thinking how beautiful it was. I wasn’t sure if that location really existed, but if it did, I wanted to visit it. About six months later, I saw what I saw in my dream on TV. The location did exist. I found out that was I saw was called noyaki. It is the practice of protecting a grassland by burning a field. It has been done for about thirteen hundred years. Without noyaki, a field would turn into woods. Beautiful grassland cannot be maintained without burning the field once a year. What amazes me is that it doesn’t happen naturally but is maintained by human intervention. I am very much interested in the flow and cycle of human practices. It is not only the theme for Ametsuchi but also a foundation of all my work.
Barbara and Michael Leisgen - Mimesis, 1972-73
A photographic portrait of a grandmother from the book Oma Toos by Jaap Scheeren.
(via Jaap Scheeren)
Jaime King
The Gleaners and I | Agnès Varda | 2000
The Gleaners and I (2000, dir. Agnès Varda).
Traditional costumes of Sorbs (also known as Wends, Lusatians, Lusatian Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs) - Western Slavic minority in the territory of Germany. They live predominantly in the historical region of Lusatia - in the modern states of Brandenburg and Saxony. They speak Sorbian languages (Wendish, Lusatian) - closely related to Polish and Czech, divided into two main groups: Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. Collection of archival photographs from vintage postcards.
Viviane Sassen
*picture of chain smoking man herding sheep in european mountains alone*
God I wish that was me
wool steiff elephant c.1912
The Face April 1999 ph. Sean Ellis
Susan Sarandon in Cannes, 1978
“Forests, especially, with the mystery of their space prolonged indefinitely beyond the veil of tree-trunks and leaves, space that is veiled for our eyes, but transparent to action, are veritable psychological transcendents.”
- Marcault and Thérèse Brosse, L'Education de Demain, 1949
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“The Shakespearean Forest deals with the symbolism of the forest and especially with ‘the relationship, sometimes harmonious, more often troubled, between the forest and its neighbour and its opposite, the city’. while also examining its penumbra of superstition, its connection with the spirit world, and with ‘the forest as a sentient being, capable of listening and even responding to … things humans do and say in it’.
- Michael Neill reviews Anne Barton, LRB 3/22/18
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“Before the gods existed, the woods were sacred, and the gods came to dwell in these sacred woods. All they did was to add human, all too human, characteristics to the great law of forest revery.”
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“But who knows the temporal dimensions of the forest? History is not enough. We should have to know how the forest experiences its great age; why, in the reign of the imagination, there are no young forests … The forest is a before-me, before-us, whereas for fields and meadows, my dreams and recollections accompany all the different phases of tilling and harvesting. When the dialectics of the I and the non-I grow more flexible, I feel that fields and meadows are with me, in the with-me, with-us. But forests reign in the past. I know for instance, that my grandfather got lost in a certain wood. I was told this, and I have not forgotten it. It happened in a past before I was born. My oldest memories, therefore are a hundred years old, or perhaps a bit more. This, then, is my ancestral forest. And all the rest is fiction.”
- Gaston Bachelard, from “Intimate Immensity” in The Poetics of Space, 1958
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^ two stills from Hiro Murai’s aerial shot, Atlanta S2E8 “Woods”, written by Stefani Robinson