"And we realize what interests the artist [Morandi] is the process of the visible first becoming visible, before the thing seen has been given a name or acquired a value."
"Every individual is not only a synthesis of existing relations, but also the history of those relations, which means the resume of all the past."
"On the nurraghi (dry-stone towers of Sardinia) : they offered shelter, probably many layers of shelter, for men are many layered."
"Stone was called heartless because it was deaf."
When everything is in flux, nothing stays the same, when no order establishes itself, is as good (or bad) as another, then stones offer the only available promise: that of shelter, and "stone was considered as companions."
"Stones propose another sense of time whereby the past of the planet proffers a meagre yet massive support to human acts of resistance as if the veins of metal in rock led to our veins of blood."
--from John Berger.
4 comments:
wonderful quotes here, especially the one on Morandi - i could use it for my jar-post, i think :-)
thank you, as always, for such treasures, b!
hello, roxana!
Well, thank you for always visiting (i'd offer you some tea if only you turned to Lipton!)
that was such a fantastic photo. really was. Last year I went around the old part of town to the 'bottle market' looking for coloured jars/bottles ..I guess it all goes back to my childhood and seeing ubo in the pharmacy with so many old bottles.
anyways,
don't know what else to say. surprised that you still visit. It's very good to have you.
Take care,
b.
haha - "surprised that you still visit" - i don't believe you at all :-P
such a mistrustful child.
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