The vision of these blog posts is to document the journey. With your help, I hope to tell a story unlike any other. The dream of The Great American Novel will be achieved.
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- Inspired by Shotei Takahashi’s Nearby Omuro (1929)
The air, still and calm. Mountains in sight fill the soul. The earth, fixed and firm - Inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s The Astronomer (1668)
From every point, in all space, at any time. Only these three, states, modalities, conditions, determine this world. Know, realize, forgetIdeas, truths, falsehoods.Never, now, always.Seek, shun, welcome.Devil, Man, God.From, idling, go.Within, without, beyond.Nightmares, dreams, reality. From every point, In all space, at any time. Of the three, wills, orders,… - Inspired by John William Waterhouse’s The Loggia (1890-1893)
It’s those thoughts, when the day is done, and all others have left, that truly linger. It’s those feelings, when the dust has settled, and everything seems at peace, that tell me I am alone. - Inspired by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Double Self-Portrait
The self is twofold I say! Yes, it is a binary bound, perpetually twain, and forever betwixt- No, I disagree!The self is an impermanence of course, a free-flowing continuance, a fluid spectrum of intersecting superimpositions- You fool! How ridiculous it is, to live in this world, and to be,… - Inspired by Jan Steen’s Action proves the Man (1659)
Whenever there is, something to be done, some action to be taken, some feat to achieve, there is a voice, that comes. Drowning all other thoughts, as it overwhelms the background. Suffocating any other sounds, as it finds the foreground. “Do you really think?”, it will question. “Surely, you… - Inspired by Hans von Aachen’s Allegory or The Triumph of Justice (1598)
Lady Justice!To some, she is vile and repugnant, She’s only mythic and intangible, some ancient notion, they might think.No longer necessary, no longer possible, they might say. But I know her to be triumphant and glorious! I’ll forever speak of her arresting beauty! Lady Justice!Without her, hope, has no…