“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI (quoted from here; an interesting article here) Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948  [The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI

(quoted from here; an interesting article here)

Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948 

[The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

“The books had been left to the elements and as a result their appearance was decayed, fragile, almost romantically beautiful. These books had been part of an installation, a performance work and now are presented as sculpture. By removing the binding, and replacing it with wire, she was able to seal and bury the book and let natural corrosion take place.” (+) Mary Ellen Long’s, Books: Untitled [her website —- more info. here]

“The books had been left to the elements and as a result their appearance was decayed, fragile, almost romantically beautiful. These books had been part of an installation, a performance work and now are presented as sculpture. By removing the binding, and replacing it with wire, she was able to seal and bury the book and let natural corrosion take place.” (+)

Mary Ellen Long’s, Books: Untitled [her website —- more info. here]

“I examine the subjects of narrative, person, place or event through the perspective of larger religious thought, history and ritual, not solely through institutional interpretations. It is the more profound sense of Mystery that I seek to articulate and uncover in my work. When I conflate the lives and stories of others to my own personal events it is to define the common ways our lives overlap or converge in the sacred sense.” Linda Ekstrom, “Tale,” Bible, thread, and ribbon, 2002 [+; her statement here]

“I examine the subjects of narrative, person, place or event through the perspective of larger religious thought, history and ritual, not solely through institutional interpretations. It is the more profound sense of Mystery that I seek to articulate and uncover in my work. When I conflate the lives and stories of others to my own personal events it is to define the common ways our lives overlap or converge in the sacred sense.”

Linda Ekstrom, “Tale,” Bible, thread, and ribbon, 2002 [+; her statement here]

firsttimeuser: Children on the sidewalk, 1947 by Ben Meerendonk (via firsttimeuser)

firsttimeuser:

Children on the sidewalk, 1947 by Ben Meerendonk

(via firsttimeuser)

Bruno Di Bello, Disegnare con la luce: Segno di luce, 1978 [more info. here]

“Your photography is a record of your living—for anyone who really sees. […] You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have to eventually free yourself from them.” — Paul Strand [article here and more here] Paul Strand, Blind Woman, New York, 1917

“Your photography is a record of your living—for anyone who really sees. […] You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have to eventually free yourself from them.”

— Paul Strand [article here and more here]

Paul Strand, Blind Woman, New York, 1917