Kelly W
@kwingading
Kelly W
Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon: Hasui Kawase’s Stunning Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 1920s-1950s
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
On Hasui Kawase
“Eros concerns the Other in a strong sense, namely, what cannot be encompassed by the regime of the ego. Therefore, in the inferno of the same, which contemporary society is increasingly becoming, erotic experience does not exist. Erotic experience presumes asymmetry and exteriority of the Other.”
My Random Musings on Love
“The truth, which is harder to communicate, is that you have some vague sense of its value, which you hope that some future version of yourself might properly grasp.”
Agnes Callard
The Aristophanic Ideal of Love (very modern!) → Completion (““Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”)
““Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”
“According to Greek mythology, humans were
Plato, The Symposium
“Softest of mornings, hello.
And what will you do today, I wonder,
to my heart?
And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder,
before it must break?
This is trivial, or nothing: a snail
climbing a trellis of leaves
and the blue trumpets of flowers.
No doubt clocks are ticking loudly
all over the world.
I don’t hear them. The snail’s pale horns
extend and
Softest of Mornings, Mary Oliver
“The impression that time moves considerably faster than before also has its origin in the fact that today we are unable to linger…Whoever tries to live faster, will ultimately also die faster. It is not the total number of events but the experience of duration which makes life more fulfilling” (34).
“Without rest human beings are incapable of
... See moreThe Scent of Time, Byung-Chul Han
I often think Hasui Kawase was simply the greatest at depicting weather — not just how it looks, but how it feels…
The Culturistsubstack.comHasui Kawasu