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“I feel that, if necessary, one must be ready to summon one’s total being with an all-consuming rage against those forces that are blind to the primacy of life-giving values . . . . Perhaps, by this sheer dedication, one may yet merge force with grace.”
🖋🖌 Theodore Roszak
He Huaishuo, Night of the Forgotten Moon, 1983, Ink and colour on paper
Mark Tansey, Study for ‘Discarding the Frame’, 1992-1999, Oil on canvas
Janet Taylor Pickett, The Messenger, 2020, Acrylic and paper collage on canvas
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Each element capable of being isolated from the universe always appears like a particle susceptible of entering into the composition of a group that transcends it. Being is always a group of particles whose relative autonomies are maintained.
—Bataille
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🖌 Peter Doig