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20 February 2025 14:34

Farewell, (1892) - Alfred Guillou , musée des Beaux-Arts De Quimper.

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18 February 2025 14:14

I miss myself. Seems like something is lost here. I am always searching for it desperately, touching the walls, wandering in empty corridors and passages. I need to keep my silence, but at the same time during the daylight l talk on and on and on .. like a curse. The curse of language. As soon as something is out there bounded with words, the thing is dead. It's simply like a fish out of her home; water. The outside kills everything. Kills my little pathetic words, ideas ..language when written or spoken, should be fragmented, minimal and give the sensation of walking in unconscious. As what Marguerite Duras does in her works. She is intuitively drowned in her unconscious without being truly drowned; being dead! She is connected to the unspoken language. To that vital vast non-verbal aspect of being human. And to put this unspoken thing into words? That's my fascination for her. That's where she miraculously emerges. She steps onto the scene of the play strolling slowly without any extra movement ready to pin you down on your chair as the spectator or maybe more of a sideliner.

I have this dream to be drowned in my own unconscious. Or maybe anyone else’s. This would be my glorious final regression to where l belong. This is the eternal tranquillity which l was thrown out with, from the very moment l was born; the triumph of evolution, yet the cosmic failure of self, my-self.

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15 February 2025 00:49

By Roberto Ferri.
[https://www.robertoferri.net/gallery/]

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11 February 2025 23:09

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights (She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps) 1985, dir. Philippe Garrel.

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05 February 2025 16:06

To exist is to linger between what was and what could be, never fully here, never fully there.

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01 February 2025 16:05

Nocturnal Animals ( 2016), dir. Tom Ford.

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24 January 2025 18:07

Outrun (2024), dir. Nora Fingscheidt.

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14 January 2025 20:55

تو توی سر من شبیه این صدا بودی ..

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11 January 2025 00:20

Nostalghia (1983), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

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09 January 2025 01:13

There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.

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06 January 2025 13:16

The Dead Mother theme last appeared in a 1915 painting, Mother with Two Children (Fig.5). Her corpse-like face, gaunt and gray, indicates we are encountering the dead mother again. Her two children, dressed brightly, have vivid faces and healthy looking bodies. The blankets around them are now bright orange, not the black and charcoal of the earlier pictures. Also, the children are placed at arm’s length from the dead mother and one of them reaches towards her.

The physical distance between the children and their mother likely reflects Schiele’s psychological progress towards separating himself from the suffocating internal psychic presence he portrayed as the dead mother. The dress of the two children features the colorful geometric designs of the Viennese secessionist school, perhaps representing Art and its vital role as a force that allowed Schiele to attain autonomy and separateness.

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06 January 2025 13:13

In Mother and Child (Fig.4), painted in 1912, the baby’s terror appears unabated. Due to the use of color, the mother does not look totally “dead.” She appears to be gripping the baby too tightly, almost strangling him.

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06 January 2025 13:11

Dead Mother II (Fig.3), painted one year later in 1911, is also titled The Birth of Genius. We can only assume Schiele refers to himself, with his customary grandiosity. The mother looks more dead than in the previous painting, and the baby is full of anxiety, struggling to escape her death grip. The womb like space has exploded into an ominous birth canal. The baby’s expression is one of horror and desperation.

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06 January 2025 13:09

In Dead Mother I, 1910, (Fig.2), a baby is enclosed both by black shrouding and his mother’s boney, fleshless hand. The child is highly colored—one can almost imagine the red blood coursing under his skin. His eyes gleam with light. Around and on top of him is a pale, drawn, depressed looking, emaciated mother holding him tight with no joy. Her mouth drops slightly open, her eyes are lifeless and empty. Her lank hair adds a third layer of circular binding. The baby’s position and the shape of the black clothes are intrauterine. The baby is trapped in a tight space, encircled by deadness. There is no visible escape.

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06 January 2025 13:07

The Dead Mother Series

In 1908 Schiele painted Madonna and Child (Fig.1) that foreshadows the first dead mother painting to come two years later. While alive in structure and expression, the dark faced Madonna has blackened hands around her child’s head, almost grabbing his neck. She conveys an ominous, frightening, anti-maternal aura. In contrast, her plump light skinned child looks robust if not especially happy to be trapped in the lap of his eerie, death-giving mother.

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19 February 2025 13:24

The first mourning (1888) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Pieta.

This work depicts the moment after Adam and Eve just found the body of their son Abel, who was murdered by Cain. This is the first human death recorded in the Bible. The grief is only magnified by the fact that their son did not just die, but was murdered by their other son Cain, making this also the first act of murder.

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15 February 2025 00:52

Arcangelo Corelli
Violin Sonata (Opus 5)
No.1 in D Major: lV. Adagio
Andrew Manze٫ Richard Egarr

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13 February 2025 12:11

"Extracting the Stone of Madness"
[PATHS OF THE MIRROR]
Aljendra Pizarnik
(1962)

XIX.
Dazzle of the new day, the yellow birds in the morning. A hand releases the dark; another drags the hair of a drowned woman who is crossing endlessly through the mirror. To return to the body's memory is to return to my mourning bones, and to grasp what it is my voice says.

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07 February 2025 20:43

Picnic (1996), dir. Shunji Iwai.

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01 February 2025 20:18

Franz Peter Schubert
Nacht und Träume٫ D.827
A lied for Voice and Piano
by Kathleen Deanna Battle

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29 January 2025 23:20

My blueberry nights (2007), dir. Wong Kar-Wai.

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24 January 2025 16:37

Glory of the Dance (1918), by Warren B. Davis.

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11 January 2025 00:27

@moonassi

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10 January 2025 15:52

تنهایی باستانی، کیهانی، موروثی روی شونه‌هامه مامان. بعد از تو جهان وارد یک فروپاشیدگی ِبی‌انتها شد. فروپاشیدگی ِابدی. و من، به دنیای جداشده‌ای از واقعیت، سلام کردم و پا در خوابی گنگ و عمیق گذاشتم.
حالا که حتی یه فرفره‌ی کوچیکم ندارم تا با چرخوندنش، واقعیت رو از رویا تشخیص بدم، حالا که تو این مارپیچ ِعقب‌گرد سقوط می‌کنم و دست‌هایی نیست که منُ از افتادن نگه داره، حالا که تو با ذوب شدن در عدم، به نفس توی ریه‌هام و آسمون بالای سرم تبدیل شدی، حالا که خیلی سیاه و سنگینم، حالا که خودمم دیگه نمی‌تونم خودمو نجات بدم مامان، تو کجایی تا با نشون دادن لبخندت به تمام ِسیاهیم سیلی بزنی تا مگر از این خواب ِکرخت بیدار شم؟ تو کجایی؟

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06 January 2025 13:17

Egon Schiele, Mother with two Children, 1915, (Figure.5).

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06 January 2025 13:15

Egon Schiele, Mother and Child, 1912, (Figure.4).

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06 January 2025 13:12

Egon Schiele, Dead Mother ll, 1911, (Figure.3).

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06 January 2025 13:10

Egon Schiele, Dead Mother l, 1910, (Figure.2).

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06 January 2025 13:08

Egon Schiele, Madonna & Child, 1908 (Figure.1).

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05 January 2025 22:36

Alexander Tinei, 2010.