'What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.'
Virginia Woolfe, To The Lighthouse
Happy Easter! -. Frohe Ostern!
Kind of Kintsugi, 2019
Move II, 2023
Impression from a performance of Eva Maria Houben (Piano) & Kagaya Sanae (Koto, Chant, Butoh); a compositional collaboration between the two
"We can find Butoh, in the same way we can touch our hidden reality, something can be born, and can appear, living and dying in the moment."
Tatsumi Hijikata in a letter to Natsu Nakajima, 1984
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#XianePhoto
#Butoh
#evamariahouben
#wandelweiser
Move I, 2023
Impression from a performance of Eva Maria Houben (Piano) & Kagaya Sanae (Koto, Chant, Butoh); a compositional collaboration between the two
"Qu'il me reste un corps pour danser, une galette de riz pour partition, et je connaîtrai moins d'encombres par-delà des nuits!"
Adrien Gaumé
#smartphonography
#XianePhoto
#Butoh
#evamariahouben
#wandelweiser
You think you are
courageous
but at best
you have confused
your irrational fears
with reality & cultivated them.
Now you let yourself be
called a contrarian
& believe that
compassion is
out of place
like empathy
for those who are
really in need
the #brave rebels
against oppression
& ignorance
#MastoPrompt
Thanks to @tanweerdar
Photo: Interference, 2022
Who is the one
that might wish to
obliterate the sun
as he cannot
stand to stare into
the bright
while someone who
already is shadowed
by an observer
may think
he would
disappear
in the absence
of
the light?
Photo: Bright, 2018
These days
I could do with a few
slogans of perseverance,
if they didn't always come
in the imperative
& turn into a single
yelp and bark
in my brain
that maltreats me:
#Persevere!
Stay strong!
Don't
grow
weak!
Go!
Go!
Go!
Xiane