Lo útil/lo inútil
Cuando se trocea un leño,se le convierte en utensilios.Cuando los sabios son usados,se les convierte en mandatarios de mandatarios. Por ello el mejor carpintero no corta el leño. El libro del Tao,...
View ArticleEs el vacío el que lo hace posible
Treinta radios convergen en una rueda,pero es el vacíoel que hace posible el uso del carro. Se moldea arcilla con agua para hacer una vasija,pero es el vacío de la vasijael que hace posible su uso. Se...
View ArticleEl ámbito que suscita la transformación
«El vacío es un principio vital y dinamizador (…) como el espacio interior de la vasija, que hace posible su uso, el espacio interior del umbral o la puerta que permite el paso. Nada más ajeno al...
View ArticleTechniques in themselves are always reducible to sciences
“No art is truly teachable in its essence. All the knowledge in the world of its techniques can provide in itself no more than imitations or replicas of previous art. What is irreplaceable in any...
View ArticleBehind every path one does finally choose lie the ghosts of all those that...
“But even the most ‘unreadable’ woods and forests are in fact subtler than any conceivable fiction, which can never represent the actual multiplicity of choice of paths in a wood, but only one...
View ArticleMe escabullí hacia el arte
«Yo me metí en el arte para escapar de la vida, también podría decirlo así, dijo. Me escabullí hacia el arte, dijo. Aguardé el instante más propicio y aproveché ese instante más propicio y me...
View ArticleEn el arte me he sentido siempre seguro
«…la Naturaleza me ha resultado durante toda mi vida siniestra, en el arte me he sentido siempre seguro». Maestros antiguos, Thomas Bernhard.
View ArticleJust sit in a room and hurt
“George Elliot depicts suffering very well: her heroines just sit in a room and hurt. They don’t have the money to do anything else.” On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ.
View ArticleMore reliable than love
“…money is more reliable than love” On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ.
View ArticleHeroines
“There’s so little for heroines to do; they can fall in love, they can die.” On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ.
View ArticleWhat can you do for the revolution?
“You’re white, male, an middle-class—what can you do for the revolution except commit suicide.” On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ.
View ArticleForm is outdated and vulgar
“Pierre who was so wonderfully clever and sensitive about painting that if a canvas had anything but one colour painted on the same colour he would almost faint with horror. Form, he said, was...
View ArticleSo many words
“There are so many words, and they all mean something.” The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington,
View ArticleSeemingly useless
“…something seemingly useless might become essential under specific circumstances.” The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington,
View ArticleThe unusual becomes usual
“With time and exposure, most things can become normal to us; however strange something is at first, we get used to it. Our nervous system adjust, and the unusual becomes usual.” Second Skin: Inside...
View ArticleA different kind of hearing
“When I put it on in the club…I’m struck by how much it alters my experience, aurally. The latex stretches tightly over my ears and it’s immediately as though I’m underwater. Voices are muffled and...
View ArticleRepresentar un caos
«Representar un caos no significa en absoluto representarlo caóticamente, sino románticamente». Luigi Pirandello, Seis personajes en busca de autor.
View ArticlePorque es forma
«Todo lo que tiene vida, por el hecho de vivir, tiene forma, y por eso debe morir: salvo la obra de arte, que precisamente vivirá por siempre porque es forma». Luigi Pirandello, Seis personajes en...
View ArticleRecoiling from visibility
“You’ve spent your whole life recoiling from visibility” Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos – “It’s a cruel world for empaths like us”, Soula Emmanuel. I see myself is this. I’ve spent...
View ArticleA concept made up
“Nuclear families were a concept made up by the same people who wanted you to get full-time jobs or sell your art for money.” Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos – “The Meaning of Life”,...
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