making sense of life, moving towards the self (20 November 2016)

Paul Barbera, from the series Where They Create
 

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.

- Nadine Gordimer

Paul Barbera, from the series Where They Create

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

- Nadine Gordimer

sketch books of artist Trockel Montalvo

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.

- Nadine Gordimer

Robyn Jones

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

- Nadine Gordimer