Twilight

Evening sky with morning light. Time to wake up.

爱你错了吗
为什么会受到这么多惩罚
他们说的话像针往心里扎
我心中的怕
不知该怎么做才可以放下
只不过想好好的爱一次啊

Berlin

In a quiet corner,
under a streetlamp,
dance me to the end of love.

Empty

一盏黄黄旧旧的灯
时间在旁闷不吭声
想回到过去

Dessau

Form follows function, ornament is a crime.

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That for ever follows function. This is the law.
~ Louis Sullivan

Railing

Like city's rain,
my heart rains
teardrops too.

Impressions

An impressionistic viewpoint.

What is the relationship between feelings and impressions? To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understanding inescapably involves perceptions. We have to constantly decipher or 'read' what we feel and ask what those perceptions indicate and how we may take them into account without being overwhelmed by them.

Quasimodo

Choose honestly.

Even monsters,
whom everyone fear
want only to be loved.

Agra

Is a tower of isolation, the home of reason?

The great Mughal emperor Akbar who called Agra home from time to time took reason to be supreme, since even in disputing reason we would have to give reasons for that disputation. Akbar was right to point to the indispensability of reason, for even the importance of emotions can be appreciated within the reach of reason. The significant place of emotions for our deliberations can be illustrated by the reasons for taking them seriously. If we are strongly moved by some particular emotion, there is good reason to ask what that tells us. Reason and emotion play complementary roles in human reflection, if only we understand the complex relationship between them.

Voyeur

What we talk about
When we talk about love

Solitude

The spaces in between.

Reading Rilke's poems, one gets the sense that he understood something very fundamental about the human nature; that there could not be intimacy between two people until one realizes that everyone remains in a way, alone. Every human being retains solitude, a space around them, which cannot be abolished. So perhaps a good relationship is one in which each appoints the other guardian of their own solitude and together create an intimate distance.

Obscured

But God is in the details.

Simplicity; Less is certainly more.
We can recognize a work of art
by the state of inspiration in which it leaves us.

Pilut

That our affections kill us not, nor dye
~ Donne

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally and intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Nighthawks

Hopper, inside out.

Nighthawks is probably Hopper's most well known painting or most commonly viewed painting. I always wondered what it would feel like to be one of the characters in his paintings; to be surrounded by space, shadow, solitude. I think the draw of a Hopper painting is not in the characters but rather in the space between the characters, pregnant with potential, serving as a metaphor for the unspoken words, the inner thoughts and the dark secrets that we carry within us.

Arbeit

Homo Erectus?

Work does not make you rich, it just makes you bent over.
~Russian Proverb

Constructive

Building a new dawn

Another year has come and gone. As much as I would like to scrub off the markings of the past, I am starting to find beauty in that most chaotic and random scrawling. Perhaps it is naive to believe that one can start on a completely clean slate. But that does not mean that one cannot build upon this slate. We all have the ability to do so, to build something better, be it on new year's day, on the first day of the month, the first day of the week or on the first day that we resolve to do so. Every sunset brings a new dawn. 2010 will be a better year, if we want it to be so.