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“Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house… Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over the water gap or the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.
“And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted… It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of azaleas, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kid’s eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live.”
Anna Quindlen
a speech prepared just in case of disaster, and thank god was never delivered.
Ivan Aivazovsky, The Black Sea (detail), 1881 (x)
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Roni Horn - Still Water: The River Thames, For Example (2000)
Artist’s statement:
“When I look at water I’m entering into an event of relation. Rather than an object, water becomes a form — of consciousness, or time, of physicality, of the human condition, of anything I desire to project on it, of anything I want it to be.
This water exists in monolithic, indivisible continuity with all other waters. No water is separate from any other water.
In the River Thames, in an Arctic iceberg, in your drinking glass, in that drop of rain, on that frosty window pane, in your eyes, in every other microscopic part of you (and me), all waters converge.
Invisible continuity is intrinsic to water. This continuity exceeds us even while being the biggest part of us. It’s this continuity that makes our effect on water an effect on us. That is to say: ‘I am the Thames!’ or ‘The Thames is me!’”
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