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The First Poem Chased into silver, Side by side: The images. To have them tell you … A many-crested roof, To cut the wind and the birds as they pass. North go the snow, the birds and the grass (not much industry, there). An aerial arabesque or ear, Strung in the wind. Greetings, Goodbye. Tree tree tree and tree This is the song: No time, no time to see the green before it bursts open. Again it was spring, The bird tried to sing, but its voice was confusion, confusion: Helpless, Grass. And there was a house, And in it, a man, a woman, a child and an old woman, Nine holes in the soul. Paavo Haavikko, The First Poem, from Selected Poems (Penguin modern European poets) : Paavo Haavikko, Tomas Tranströmer, trans. Anselm Hollo

Paolo Monti Photograph of Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà 1564, installed at Castello Sforzesco in Milan Civico Archivio Fotografico, Milano c. 1956  [x]

Sergej Jensen The Last Kind Words 2004

Barbara Morgan Martha Graham & Eric Hawkins at Bennington College 1938 [x]

Francesca Woodman Untitled 1975–1978

“Absent from other people’s meaning, alien, accidental with respect to naive happiness, I owe a supreme, metaphysical lucidity to my depression. On the frontiers of life and death, occasionally I have the arrogant feeling of being witness to the meaninglessness of Being, of revealing the absurdity of bonds and beings. My pain is the hidden side of my philosophy, its mute sister. In the same way Montaigne’s statement “To philosophize is to learn how to die” is inconceivable without the melancholy combination of sorrow and hatred — which came to a head in Heidegger’s care and the disclosure of our “being-for-death.” without a bent for melancholia there is no psyche, only a transition to action or play.” — Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

“Where does this black sun come from? Out of what eerie galaxy do its invisible, lethargic rays reach me, pinning me down to the ground, to my bed, compelling me to silence, to renunciation?” — Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Agnes Martin Tremolo 1962 [x]

Yasuzō Nojima Miss Chikako Hosokawa 1932

Lucio Fontana in his studio in Milano Ugo Mulas 1964

Kuo Mo-lin, Shin’ichi Okada, Fujio Shima Project for a Hotel on a Cliff 1962

Fireworks (dir. Kenneth Anger, 1947)

Superstudio Group Istogrammi d'architettura 1969 [x]

“Compassion goes beyond recognition, beyond the concept, beyond representation. I am unable to represent pain to myself except by undergoing it. I do not recognize the suffering other unless I feel compassion [compassione] for him. But through this action of putting myself in his place via love, by feeling pity [di compatire], I proceed to construct the world. It is not the divinity, then, not a meaning that descends from above, but suffering and pain, which come from below, that construct the very being of the world. Spinoza also operates on this terrain and from this perspective. The universal and constitutive function of suffering [patire] can be found where passion becomes compassion, and sadness turns into the joy of communion with the other. The ontology of the community is uncovered through suffering together—a suffering that is, therefore, torn from passivity and becomes constructive. It becomes ethical.” — Antonio Negri, The Labor of Job, The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor

Martine Franck Agnès Varda 1983

Takeo Sato & Associates Sanyo Broadcasting Hall, Ishiyama Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 1962

Liselotte Strelow Gisela Mattishent in "Die Troerinnen" as Andromache c. 1940s

Elana Freedom Lesbians Over 60, published in the Common Lives/Lesbian Lives (CL/LL) quarterly June 1985 “Common Lives/Lesbian Lives (CL/LL), an Iowa City-based lesbian literary journal, was initiated by eight lesbians who were living in the Los Angeles area in the fall of 1980; a co-founder of Sinister Wisdom encouraged the women by stating that more lesbian journals were needed because Sinister Wisdom received more submissions than it could print. […] The purpose of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives was to 'document the experiences and thoughts of lesbians as we claim our past, name our present conditions, and envision our evolving future.' CL/LL published all forms of creative expression including poetry, fiction, essays, drawings, memoirs, letters, photographs, and cartoons.” [x]

Nanni Mensch From the “Single Images” series 2022 [x]

La Monte Young Composition 1960 #10 1960 Performed by Nam June Paik