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But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“for it is wholly in thee and thou art wholly in it.”
Gershom Scholem • Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Writing, art, creation: this is smithwork. You set your fire; you use your bellows, your pen, your paper, to heat it to the right temperature. You set your base metal in the flames, heat it until it is white. Then you begin your transformation.