"To a great many people Ruth seems a darling little woman: small, perky, cultivated, bright, interested in people, a good listener and a great talker. Many overlook the Presbyterian missionary inside her, some fail to see the Salvation Army girl, most have never glimpsed the shrew. All know her kindness and the closeness she always feels to any sort of human misfortune or human foolishness, but it took even Ben Alexander a couple of years as her personal physician to understand the agonizing tension that keeps her on an even keel and at the same time threatens to throw her off balance. And nobody but me knows that six-year-old girl who is buried inside her, as impossible to root out as the obnoxious teenager buried in me. Tell me a story, Daddy. Tell me about when you were a teenager of about fifty. Tell me about Denmark, where you were so unhappy."
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner
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The poppy is a wild and delicate flower. It has been used for a long time as a symbol of peace, sleep and death. It is a special flower. It does not allow to be cut, it decomposes and falls apart quickly. The brilliant color and vibrancy that it presents in the field does not last even a few minutes in our hands. If we want to keep it, to make it remain, it will be necessary to elaborate it, work it in such a way that it does not spoil. The resulting, imperfect, nature will be much more complete and elegant… and will remain.
Love and beauty are the two fundamental challenges of the human being and it takes a lifetime to understand them.
Beauty repairs.
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Photograph on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper with pigmented inks, natural walnut wood frame and museum glass (70% anti-reflective and 90% UVA protection). Red collection (51 pieces). White collection (32 pieces). Numbered and signed work (25 editions of each piece). Each piece comes in a black case, with "Jaime Sicilia" stamped on the cover, specially designed for this project.
"To a great many people Ruth seems a darling little woman: small, perky, cultivated, bright, interested in people, a good listener and a great talker. Many overlook the Presbyterian missionary inside her, some fail to see the Salvation Army girl, most have never glimpsed the shrew. All know her kindness and the closeness she always feels to any sort of human misfortune or human foolishness, but it took even Ben Alexander a couple of years as her personal physician to understand the agonizing tension that keeps her on an even keel and at the same time threatens to throw her off balance. And nobody but me knows that six-year-old girl who is buried inside her, as impossible to root out as the obnoxious teenager buried in me. Tell me a story, Daddy. Tell me about when you were a teenager of about fifty. Tell me about Denmark, where you were so unhappy."
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner
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The poppy is a wild and delicate flower. It has been used for a long time as a symbol of peace, sleep and death. It is a special flower. It does not allow to be cut, it decomposes and falls apart quickly. The brilliant color and vibrancy that it presents in the field does not last even a few minutes in our hands. If we want to keep it, to make it remain, it will be necessary to elaborate it, work it in such a way that it does not spoil. The resulting, imperfect, nature will be much more complete and elegant… and will remain.
Love and beauty are the two fundamental challenges of the human being and it takes a lifetime to understand them.
Beauty repairs.
***
Photograph on 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper with pigmented inks, natural walnut wood frame and museum glass (70% anti-reflective and 90% UVA protection). Red collection (51 pieces). White collection (32 pieces). Numbered and signed work (25 editions of each piece). Each piece comes in a black case, with "Jaime Sicilia" stamped on the cover, specially designed for this project.
