the truth the dead know
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (1988)
Penelope Tree, in Yves Saint Laurent, Vogue 1968
A Young Steven Meisel, Photographed by model Josie Borain, 1991, from the book Josie, You, and Me.
“Nature is a Haunted House—but Art—a House that tries to be haunted.”
—Emily Dickinson
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (2000)
Harper Pitt: “I saw something that only I could see, because of my astonishing ability to see such things: Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles, and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules, of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired.”
—Tony Kushner, Angels in America (1993)
The Handwritten Track List of Sylvia Plath, 22 February, 1959
“All obscurity
Starts with a danger:
Your dangers are many. I
Cannot look much but your form suffers
Some strange injury
And seems to die.”
Sylvia Plath, Full Fathom Five (1958)
Croquis book, Spring 2012
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”
― Charles Bukowski, Style
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Martin Margiela for Hermes, Various Lookbooks, 1997-2003
