nanterre 2017 (j)

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.”

— Jacques from James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room”

“…not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour…–for the lack of it.”

— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Kwaidan - “Hoichi the Earless” (1964) dir. Masaki Kobayashi

“What is born must likewise die. For I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. I must come like an hour, and like an hour must pass away.”

�<>� Epictetus

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

�<>� Leonardo da Vinci

Brick Sofa Designed By Bjarke Ingels

<>Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield

i’m yo mama, i’m yo daddy, i’m that nigga in the<> alley

i’m the doctor, what you need? here’s some coke, have some weed

One of my favorite artists, even till this day.

“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.””

— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.”

— Anais Nin

““We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.””

— Anais Nin

“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”

— Albert Camus

A woman from Srebrenica screams at a United Nations soldier in a refugee camp in Tuzla, Bosnia, July 17, 1995. More than 7,000 men were executed as the United Nations Safe Haven in Srebrenica was overrun by Serb forces.

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“Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn’t waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.”

�<>� Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

<>Argus, 1981, Salvador Dali

NYC. 9/11/2001

Alex Webb 

Photography by Max Zedler

View of Lower Manhattan from a Brooklyn Heights rooftop, New York City, September 11, 2001.

© Alex Webb