Wheel to the Stars

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Jeroen Toirkens Boreal Tree #14 Hokkaido, Japan

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Russia, Altai Republic, 2006 / Road to Altai

by Jeroen Toirkens

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Henri Matisse, Zorah on the Terrace, 1912

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Lime Kilns, Harlingen, Holland, Photo © Bernd and Hilla Becher, 1963

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View of Alkmaar

Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1670-1675

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Songs are a way to get to singing, though singing is what you’re aiming for. And the singing is running sound through your body. You cannot sing a song and not change your condition. . . . I am talking about a culture that thinks it is important to exercise this part of your being. The part of your being that is tampered with when you run this sound through your body is a part of you that our culture thinks should be developed and cultivated, that you should be familiar with, that you should be able to get to as often as possible, and that if it is not developed, you are underdeveloped as a human being! If you go through your life and you don’t meet this part of yourself, somehow the culture has failed you. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Sean Scully - Inis Oirr 9, 2005, (with book Walls of Aran) - Digital chromogenic print, edition 100 (20x25cm)

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Edward Burtynsky - Shipbreaking # 49, Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001

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To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings. We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.

Oliver Sacks (via observando)

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Bill Brandt, Unknown Location, 1940s

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Viviane Sassen, Untitled from Roxane II, 027a, 2017.

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Sean Scully, Ten Siena Doors (1 of 10), 1978-2003.