Sharon Elkouby
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Sharon Elkouby
We are allowed to sample the spiritual power of isolation that presumably goes with a monk’s seclusion. The title Aus-Höhlen is a pun on the German verb “to hollow out”—a hint that perhaps withdrawal from society is not the simple solution it seems. In the second film, reusing most of the same footage, Spierenburg introduces voice-overs in which... See more
Spirituality, Inner-ness, Self-regulaiton
From Veronika Spierenburg, Aus-Höhlen
June 15, 2022 – October 2, 2022 seen at the Noguchi Museum
I had two books with me, which I'd meant to read on the plane. One was Words for the Wind, by Theodore Roethke, and this is what I found in there:
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear,
I learn by going where I have to go.
Poetry and Book-to-book connections
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Goddamn Infinite Emergency: Love Stories by John Mandel
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“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
read April 2017
The light being doesn’t judge. ‘When he came across times when I had been selfish, his attitude was only that I had been learning from them, too,’ said a person in Life After Life. Judgment comes only from yourself. The light being emits an all-encompassing, unconditional love that is ‘unimaginable, indescribable’. You feel the happiest you’ve ever
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From My Spiritual Evolution by Tao Lin, essay in Granta Online Edition Oct 30th 2024
live ladybug on commonplace book in greenpoint apt
“Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy one time about a book that wasn’t science fiction. He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. “But that isn’t enough any more,” said Rosewater.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Read Aug 16, 2017