Yvonne Thuss

If you love something, stop!

A bit tricky. OP’s distinction obv. false (realism vs. ‘poetry’). But I think No_e is a bit glib. Pre-photographic optics entails a distinct anthropology/psychology of vision. Panofsky’s basic contention in PaSF, integral optical/spatial/visual-psychological complex.

restaurant that seems to specialize in desolate and vaguely brutal paella

Everyone is on disgusting european vacations, including me.

It always seemed to me one of the few mercies of being here that everyone dies a mystery to themselves.

People now feel so confident in their ability to describe themselves to themselves.

Really bad painters sometimes make very good drawings. I think that drawing curtails people’s worst impulses. These are by Baccio Bandinelli, who was a terrible painter.

Thinking about more faces

Can anyone tell me how to properly think about Luc Tuyman’s? I think he’s a great painter, but maybe he was the beginning of the End as well.

I like thinking about faces

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the world barely exists

nothing ‘good’ has ever happened