The Expanded Field

Arts & Ideas

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Derek Jarman, Love Sex Death (1992)

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Derek Jarman, Three Minutes to Midnight (1986)

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Louis Dalrymple, Who will haul it down? (1899)

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Monument to the Resistance, by Umberto Mastroianni (1969).

Cuneo, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2024)

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Susan Laughton

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Maja Genc

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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to manage conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

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I came to theory because I was hurting—the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around and within me. Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I saw in theory then a location for healing.

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

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When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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Shoplifter, Chromo Sapiens, 2020

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, American Citizens Map (2021)

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Herbert Bayer, “’The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.’--Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logigo-philosphicus, 1922. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.” (1966-1979)

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Charles Kettering

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There’s always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

Harold G. Moore, We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam

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Alighiero Boetti, Mappa del Mundo (1988)

In 1971 Alighiero e Boetti commissioned Afghan embroiderers to create a map of the world, with each country bearing the colours and pattern of its flag. The commission grew into a beautifully crafted, large-scale series of maps produced over a period of twenty years in Kabul, Afghanistan and Peshawar, Pakistan. Each map tracked geopolitical changes throughout the world: the break-up of the Soviet Union, the unification of Germany, disputes over territories in the Middle East and regime changes in the Eurasian peninsula.

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Vincent van Gogh, Prisoners' Round (after Gustave Doré),1890

A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971), DF 308 LS Interior prison hall leading to cells. (1:01:29)