The cold used to remind me of death. Now that I have begun to understand death, the cold reminds me of how much alive I am.
Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bentley at work. Paradigmatic example of mania extending creativity.
When one fails, another will win.
Raoul de Keyser, again.
To admire reason.
To be in awe of reason.
To think in a reasonable way about unreasonable events.
To reason with your enemy.
To feel yourself wandering from the realm of the unreasonable.
To feel yourself flimsy with reason.
Is it the anticipation / expectation that feeds desire or is it the actualizing?
Not everything beautiful needs to be documented.
There is a thin line between intellectual posturing and intuitive allowing.
Raoul de Keyser, Ohne Titel. Watercolor on Paper, 2008.
In sharp contrast to da Vinci, de Keyser’s watercolors are quick, emotionally-driven abstractions that depend no less than da Vinci on the materiality of their making. I think of these as a form of experiential note-taking, trying to record the essence of sensory information as opposed to a physical appearance. The aspects of life and time that are felt, not seen, but are positively real.
