It's Complicated

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

— Agatha Christie

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Nadia Wicker

“Nuwa is a series of imaginary characters, in reference to the creative goddess of the same name, who shaped the first humans with some clay.

Her fascination for the clothing extravagance, the painting and the movement, led her to create this album of heroines, warriors and fanciful queens. Nuwa got 4 honorables mentions at International Photography Awards. She’s published in Absurde Magazine.”

I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Derek Toye

HUMBERTO UTRABO JUNIOR

daniel libeskind

‘eL chandelier for sawaya & moroni’

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I came for you, but your life was one long emergency.

— Bruce Springsteen, “For You”

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Nonotak

“This has got to be one of the trippiest light installations we’ve ever come across. Isotopes v.2, by Nonotak Studio, is currently on view at the Mapping Festival in Geneva. The catalyst for the project is the now famous city of Fukushima in Japan. Back in 2011, Fukushima’s nuclear power plant suffered major damage after a 9.0 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami hit Japan. Fukushima’s residents were evacuated from the city as radiation levels skyrocketed. Officials deemed the disaster a level 7, the highest level of seriousness for a nuclear incident. This light installation brings that tragedy back to the forefront in a jarring and thought-provoking way. “Isotopes is an open space which can also be perceived as a prison,” they explain. “At first, the slow and hypnotizing moving lights attracts the visitor into the heart of it. Then, the rhythm and the intensity become continually more aggressive until it generates immaterial barriers: it’s easy to get in but neigh impossible to get out. This echoes the way humans approach nuclear power. First seduced, then addicted by its comfortable energy, humans have become trapped in an unstable situation. The rhythm of the lights and the sounds bring back the connection between the Japanese and their awareness of radioactive omnipresence. Sometimes you can forget it, like the glow of a night light, but sometimes the conscience gains the upper hand, and fear comes back with loss of ground reference. Through the metamorphoses of its appearance, this installation leaves the visitor between what once existed and what didn’t, drawing them into the spectrum of their own volatile emotions.”

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

— Maya Angelou

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Lua - Bright Eyes

“I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor’s west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they’ll be gone.

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.”

Sergio Otero

Michele Wambaugh

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

— George Eliot (1819-1880)

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Marc Wildpassion

It's Complicated

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