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“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not la

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.”

- Albert Camus. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, 1951.

Art: Edward Hopper. Boy and Moon, 1906-1907.


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21st century acedia@21st century acedia
Wed, 04 Nov 2015 11:16:36
“A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just w“A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just w
“A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just watched soldiers execute four of her children, ransack her home, burn her land, and slaughter her animals … ‘I brought my goose because it’s the only family I have left,” she explains.’”
“She and the refugees are equally as helpless in the face of their losses. 'I’m going to listen to you for the next hour, and when you cry I’m going to cry with you, and I’m going to hug you, and I’m not going to pretend I can change anything. I’m just going to sit and listen.’”
"Participation in this project of memory sustenance allows us to begin to combat the numbers that have constrained our understanding of human suffering. By acknowledging the dynamism of the individual, we can refuse to allow a statistic or an image to transform a person into a symbol and reject the representative control of forces that have already physically subjugated the body." 

Melissa Smyth for warscapes onart and healing among refugees

Paintings:Through a Bullet Hole, 6x8 and Hanging In There 18x14


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Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:17:22
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