a container of stability

That we need art in the first place is a sign that we stand in almost permanent danger of imbalance, of failing to regulate our extremes, of losing our grip on the golden mean between life’s great opposites: boredom and excitement, reason and imagination, simplicity and complexity, safety and danger, austerity and luxury.

Always Hold To Your Deepest Realization Eternity must be a man’s home, moment by moment. Without it, he is lost, always striving, grasping at puffs of smoke. A man must do anything necessary to glimpse, and then stabilize, this ever-fresh realization, and organize his life around it.

We need sturdy structures for consistency and we need the mystery, intimacy, and even uncertainty that gives life warmth and purpose too.

the work I do here gives me the safety to feel the emptiness.