A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.
-- Mavis Gallant
(Vernazza, Italy)
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agatha wants to go outside, but it’s too cold :( maybe we will do some baking instead..?
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Farmhouse: December silence
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Florian, Juliana & Arven Looking Out Window
Rika and Poppy go to Pasio is arrival!
But, We haven't forgotten about Florian, Juliana and Arven go to Pasio on June, have you?
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Potato Essay: The fear of missing out?
Recently I’ve watched a video essay by one of my YouTubers of choice - Jacob Geller. In his video he talks about art that was made for no one.[1] One of the art works he mentions is a creation by Michael Heizer that took a lot of effort, cost a lot of money and is accessible to general public in a harshly restricted way. It also changed a great part of the natural landscape of the Nevada desert, where this artwork - City - is placed.
The reflection about the impact of Heizer’s works on the environment and also the politics of human handling of it stuck with me. Heizer often takes some natural resources to create he’s pieces, and that in huge amounts. For Levitated Mass, displayed in Los Angeles County Museum of Art, displaced a 340-ton boulder from Stone Valley Quarry to LA.[2] For Double Negative, a work one can see in the Nevada desert, he displaced 244.000 tons of natural material to create a void space in a piece of a rock.[3]
I could go on in my research. I could read up on his hubris and ego. I could look up the private donors who made those and other creations possible. I could jump down the rabbit whole of papers on the relationship between mankind and nature and capitalism and exploitation and …
But I’m on a train for a weekend get away. I like traveling by train. The soft rocking of the vehicle while passing through outskirts and woods and fields. I’d rather look out a window than concentrate on the screen of my phone, while I write this. I don’t want to miss what’s outside the window. I don’t want to run out of time to research Michael Heizers Art and the politics behind it.
Sources:
[1] Jacob Geller. Art for No One.
[2] Wiki
[3] Wiki
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In my heart, Warrior Nun s3 is a reality, and we get to see Ava falling from the sky, finally back on Earth after god (Reya?) knows how long. I just have this crystal clear image of a travel montage for Ava to Lord Huron’s song Meet me in the woods, riding trains and buses across Europe, walking in unknown cities and beautiful sceneries but with a focus and determination that stops her from sight seeing, because she has to get back to the ocs, to Beatrice.
I took a little journey to the unknown
and I come back changed I can feel it in my bones
I fucked with forces that our eyes can’t see
Now the darkness got a hold on me
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