How to Have Interesting Weight
Her existence, like her beauty and real worth, was intrinsically aesthetic, not physical or emotional. Veronica would be most comfortable, I remain convinced, as a human exhibit, motionless in the cool bright corner of a public hall, surrounded by a square of red velvet no-touch ropes, hearing only whispered voices and heels on tile.
David Foster Wallace • The Broom of the System: A Novel
Display embodies beauty and expressiveness often united with a zany grace.
Robert Bly • Iron John
“Wilke’s description of her early erotic objects as both abstract and “namable” reads as a pretty accurate description of a number of other three-dimensional works made in the early years of the 1960s by other artists, including Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama. Each was then working independently to establish a formal vocabulary that ... See more
“I didn’t want copies of objects—I wanted the ephemeral connections between unrelated things to vibrate.
Eric Kim • 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
Your body’s shape and movement patterns continually change in response to the content of your life.
Ruthie Fraser • Stack Your Bones: 100 Simple Lessons for Realigning Your Body and Moving With Ease
A body—any body—will take its cues, bend the available resources, and invent its being with the matter around it.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
They want to learn how to have different bodies, not occupy the ones they have now.