the gift of mystery (19 October 2016)

Myoung Ho Lee, Tree #2, from the series Photography-Act, 2007

You are doing the right thing.

- Andrzej Wajda

Tacita Dean, detail of Painted Kotzsch Tree III (part of a series), 2008


A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

- Lewis Mumford

Tacita Dean, Beatuy, 2011 at the Musuem Of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Otto Kummert, 1980 East German poster for Panny z Wilka (The Maids of Wilko), by Andrzej Wajda, 1979

Cinema can speak to people's consciences. I don't think I've wasted this life because I've contributed something to the course of political events.

- Andrzej Wajda

Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2006

Leonardo da Vinci, Tree Branching, (ca. 1515)

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

- Lewis Mumford

 Bryan Nash Gill, Willow, 2011

 Bryan Nash Gill at work

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

- Lewis Mumford

Bogdan Krężel, Andrzej Wajda, Kraków, 2009