edward hopper, light - still some of the most mesmerising images




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BOUQUET OF ROSES IN SUNLIGHT

Say that it is a crude effect, black reds,
Pink yellows, orange whites, too much as they are
To be anything else in the sunlight of the room,

Too much as they are to be changed by metaphor,
Too actual, things that in being real
Make any imaginings of them lesser things.

And yet this effect is a consequence of the way
We feel and, therefore, is not real, except
In our sense of it, our sense of the fertilest red,

Of yellow as first color and of white,
In which the sense lies still, as a man lies,
Enormous, in a completing of his truth.

Wallace Stevens


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one doesn't have to be excellent at something to like it very much. i think maybe, if you are true to the process and true in your attempt to actualise the idea into being, you will get better at it.

the thought that you have to be perfect at something right at the start is so demanding on the soul and eventually, the body. there's some tension there in trying to balance - to be a perfectionist so that you give the experience the best effort so that you don't waste any of your precious time on earth - it's not very long - and the trying to let go, and recognise your failings and the reality of being human - flaws and such. this balancing act is in itself, traumatic, edifying, beautiful, terrifying, carthatic.

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i really have to give my exercise regime some effort.