THE PHILIPPINES IN A STATE OF CALAMITY
SEPTEMBER
2009
You don't have a soul.
You are a Soul.
You have a body.
BODY OF A WOMAN
PABLO NERUDA
Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender.
My rough peasant's body digs in you
and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth.
I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me,
and night swamped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.
But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.
Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!
Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!
Body of a woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows
and the weariness follows, and the infinite ache.
YOUR BREAST IS ENOUGH
PABLO NERUDA
Your breast is enough for my heart,
and my wings for your freedom.
What was sleeping above your soul will rise
out of my mouth to heaven.
In you is the illusion of each day.
You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You undermine the horizon with your absence.
Eternally in flight like the wave.
I have said that you sang in the wind
like the pines and like the masts.
Like them you are tall and taciturn,
and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
You gather things to you like an old road.
You are peopled with echoes and nostalgic voices.
I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated
that had been sleeping in your soul.
this collection by gregory colbert holds my favorite photographs
art that moves me to indescribable emotions
a place filled with awe and inspiration whilst surrounded by love and peace
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Ashes and Snow, Gregory Colbert’s sixteen-year personal and artistic odyssey. Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, film, art installations and a novel in letters. The exhibition consists of more than 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute feature film and two short film haikus. To date, more than nine and a half million people around the world have visited the exhibition.
www.ashesandsnow.org
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not to mention i'm mad about elephants
there's a fine line between genius and madness
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A film gifted by a love to draw from.
Truly mind blowing and inspiring.
It was beauty and magic all at once.
A passion framed by death a life lived on the edge.
After watching this you feel like you can do anything.
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man on wire is a BAFTA-award winning 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently released in paperback with the new title Man on Wire.
