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By Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831-1889)

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Select works of Gérard Trignac, a French artist known for grand and fantastic architectural landscapes.

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Marco Bozzato by Sofia Goncharenko – Haze Magazine (Winter 2020)

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- Jiddu Krishnamurti.

You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met. […]

When I was a child, Margaret Thatcher said, “There’s no such thing as society, only individuals and their families” ―and, all over the world, her viewpoint won. […] I know this now, because I can see that when I became depressed, it didn’t even occurred to me, for thirteen years, to relate my distress to the world around me. I thought it was all about me, and my head. I had entirely privatized my pain ―and so had everyone I knew.

In a world that thinks there’s no such thing as society, the idea that our depression and anxiety have social causes will seem incomprehensible. […]

But it turns out we are all still living in a society, even if we pretend we aren’t. The longing for connections never goes away. So instead of seeing your depression and anxiety as a form of madness, I would tell my younger self —you need to see the sanity in this sadness. You need to see that it makes sense. […] If you touch your hand to a burning stove, that, too, will be agony […]. If you kept your hand on the stove, it would burn and burn until it was destroyed.

Depression and anxiety might, in one way, be the sanest reaction you have.

– Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions.