a dreamer's wisdom - us and the world

I am passionate about everything in my life - first and foremost,
passionate about ideas.  And that's a dangerous person to be in this
society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a
fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.  
- Bell Hooks

Franz Kafka noted that happiness for him consisted in raising the
world "into the pure, the truth, and the immutable."

Ordinary life does not interest me.  I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist;
I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite
dimension.  - Anais Nin

Mary L. Macomber, "Night and Her Daughter Sleep" (detail)

photo stories - antonio palmerini

Palmerini shows us split personalities, melancholia, bi-polar
disorder, depression, paranoia, and sociopathy, all through
double exposures, long exposures, and high contrast
development.  At least that's what I see...  stories of ghosts
and tormented wanderers.  What do you see?

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human
beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years
the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as
the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the
woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from
the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving
us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

- Anaïs Nin