13.02.12 (ii)

Thankyou Note, Wislawa Szymborska

I owe a lot to those I don't love.
Relief, with which I approve
that they are closer to someone else.

Joy that it's not me who the wolf
among their sheeps.

I have peace with them
and I am free with them,
and this is what love can
neither give nor take.

I don't wait for them
from window to door.
Patient
almost like a solar clock,
I understand
what love doesn't,
I forgive,
what love would never forgive.

Between a meeting and a letter
there is not an eternity,
but simply a few days or weeks.

My journeys with them are always successful,
concerts heard,
cathedrals visited,
landscapes clear.

And when we're separated
by seven mountains and rivers,
they are mountains and rivers
well known from the maps.

It's only thanks to them,
that I live in three dimensions,
in space unlyrical and unrhetorical,
with real since stable horizon.

They don't know themselves,
how much they carry in their empty hands.

'I don't owe them anything' -
love would say
about this open topic.

13.02.12

Every World Press Photo winner from 1955-2011

Link here

11.02.12 (iii)

DOROTHY's 'Casualties of War'

11.02.12 (ii)

Michael Kenna

11.02.12

From Warhol to Murakami: Pop art hasn't lost it's soul, it's selling it.
Pop art has surrendered its seriousness for dazzling mind candy. But it's not alone. Does all art now exist only for the rich?

Article here

07.02.12

The Olympic mascots have tipped me over the edge
Article here

"The 2012 Olympics is meant to be 'a showcase for British talent'. Yet out of the entire country, teeming with artists, these nasty designs were the absolute best they could dredge up"

06.02.12 (ii)

Eilat, Israel based artist Yell Saccani combines digital manipulation with traditional photography and blends both the gentile and the somber aspects of portraiture.

06.02.12

Kenichi Hoshine creates mixed media pieces out of oil, acrylic, and wax on wood.