It is Saturday morning. The day promises to be comfortable, more so than the high 90s of the past several days. This morning the Farmers Market with Laura and our daughter and grand daughter is anticipated. In the afternoon I look forward to keeping accompany with my son to the race track in Wisconsin. …
We live a short distance from Braeburn Marsh. At this time of year female snapping turtles move from their habitat into open view searching for a suitable spot to lay their eggs. While partially concealed behind a tree I took these photos a few days ago. The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), its natural…
Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself. Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism…
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death… Sexual reproductive activity is common to sexual animals and humankind, but only humankind appear to have turned their sexual activity into erotic activity. Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. [A] gulf exists, for instance, between you, listening…
One Girl by Sappho I. Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot, somehow,— Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for…
We are discontinuous beings, individuals who perish in the midst of an incomprehensible adventure, but we yearn, for our lost continuity. Continuity is what we are after… -excerpt introduction to Eroticism by Georges Bataille, trans. by Mary Dalwood This tune will be our lifeline, enough to hold onto for this part of the journey….
June is Pride Month. Pride Month is celebrated by the LGBTQ community, by parades, poetry readings, and peaceful protests to raise political awareness of the issues facing the gay community. There was a time in my life when I wondered why? Is there a point when it appears simply living one’s life is sufficient? …
A man [woman] should learn to detect and watchthat gleam of lightwhich flashes across his mind from within,more than the lusterof the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he [she] dismisses without notice his thought,because it is his [hers]…. ¶1 and, Trust thyself:every heart vibrates to that iron string.Accept the place that divine…
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood (womanhood) of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…
PHOTOGRAPHY is the paradigm of the inherently equivocal connection between self and world –its version of the ideology of realism sometimes dictating an effacement of the self in relation to the world, sometimes authorizing an aggressive relation to the world which celebrates the self. One side or the other of the connection is always…
