Yoshitomo Nara
Daydreamer (detail), 2003
Acrylic, colored pencil, and pastel on paper
Thinking about the Kafka quote “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones”, which I identify with so much, but isn’t the fact that I, among so many others, deeply identify with it contradicting to the statement? He felt like his feelings were incommunicable and yet he communicated them in a way others still relate to 80 years later… is that not so very special and does that not fill you with hope…………
A cat balances on a row of high fence posts. Owner Loree McComb photographed her cat Johnny balancing on the fence in her back garden in New Mexico, United States.
Ugandan model Kiara Kabukuru in an editorial for Elle (US) in June 1994 titled ‘Field Of Dreams’ and photographed by Gilles Bensimon in Marrakech, Morocco.
This is one of my most favourite fashion editorials as rarely do we see these carefree ‘shoots involving dark-skinned black women, and whenever Western magazines shoot in foreign locations involving local subjects in the ‘shoot, they are often merely used as agent-less props which is not the case in this spread.
There’s also the inclusion of Africans of different hues in an African location, which I love.
However, I’m yet to discover the name of Kabukuru’s photoshoot partner.
looking at old photos of myself thinking not only is that girl dead but i killed her
A young boy carries his slingshot around his neck and wears cherries like earrings in Gilgit, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Cascading Universe, Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Dumfries, Scotland, Charles Jencks, 1988