"I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren’t on show in the world. It’s something you grow out of from childhood onwards, losing possession of yourself, really. I think literature is one of the best ways back into that. You are hypnotized as soon as you get into a book that particularly works for you, whether it’s fiction or a poem. You find that your defenses drop, and as soon as that happens, an imaginative reality can take over because you are no longer censoring your own perceptions, your own awareness of the world."
Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150 (via bookmania)
"I have this feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put it into words but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and put me back together again. That sort of feeling."
Haruki Murakami (via psychotic-art)
(Source: pleochroisms, via psychotic-art)
Darren Almond, No Extra Time, 2002. battery powered clock, enamel steel, perspex and electric motor.
(Source: maxhetzler.com, via svell)
Michal Martychowiec, Vanito Vanitas, 2011.
“Vanito Vanitas. Emptying emptiness. At the beginning there is an image. And this somehow iconographic image is a base to operate with in this formal discussion. The initial images operate with symbols only in order for these symbols to be rendered inoperative. To empty the empty is to evoke the pure experience of it. One that can be conceived despite the cultural or intellectual background of the viewer. I deprive my work of any symbolic representation.”
In this experiment, people started to feelsomething when the fake hand was touched, just because of the simultaneous action. Phenomenology is superb!
(Source: drunkinabeautifulgarden)
