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"An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of t "An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second." —Virginia Woolf . . A glimpse from my Patreon "sketchbook". See the full thing & other monthly sketches at Patreon.com/patrickshen
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"Even if the object of my attention does not move, "Even if the object of my attention does not move, my subjective apprehension of the object is constantly evolving. This is a necessary consequence of the duration of experience. The spectator... witnesses movement... the movement of time itself." -Justin Remes
Washington DC // April 2018 Washington DC // April 2018
"Time is not real, urgency is fiction, whatever we "Time is not real, urgency is fiction, whatever we’ve been told must be done right now can wait." -Eloghosa Osunde
Dear Louisville: Day of Stranger premieres (in an Dear Louisville: Day of Stranger premieres (in an actual movie theater) at the outstanding @speedartmuseum Sun July 18 @ 1pm. Admission is free. Trailer at dayofastranger.com . . #thomasmerton #speedcinema
Tunisia // July 2019 . . #selfportrait Tunisia // July 2019 . . #selfportrait
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, bor If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. –Walter Benjamin . . #boredom #walterbenjamin
Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its mann Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see. (Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida) . . #rolandbarthes #cameralucida
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