lucia

Because if you don’t meet your own soul before you meet another person’s, you’ll build a home in theirs and forget you ever had your own. You’ll confuse being wanted with being known . And that, more than loneliness, is the thing that will hollow you out.

‘A canvas is never empty,’ says Cage, quoting Rauschenberg, and 4’33” bears that out, as random ambient sound – coughing, shifting, programmes rustling – becomes a kind of music. These works illustrate the impossibility of saying nothing: to represent nothing is to negate it by turning it into something – an image, a piece of music, a reflection of... See more