“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying” – Simone de Beauvoir

source: heartdew

I’ve always enjoyed Sophie Calle’s work. She gives new meaning to introspection and in some of her work, stalking. One could easily replace “art” for “stalking,” in her observational and artistic studies of others. She muddles art & life but still manages to illuminate the lives of those she barely knows.

Still, it is her introspection that I am mostly captivated by. She reflects honestly about her suffering in Exquisite Pain (92 days to unhappiness). Even more, I have a very special fondness with my bed. I am obsessed with my dreams and what happens in my mind in the hours of sleep.

I am naturally drawn to this personalized project. It is my need to know more about my life. This is what i call my own “narcissistic egoism.” Slightly redundant yes but… I suppose that is me in a nutshell. I am constantly going in circles in search of myself.

I am often thinking…

How and when does the head override the heart?
It takes a lifetime to get to know those around you.
How long does it take to know yourself??

source: tzeroxymox

These are fantastic.

source: Elly Yap’s Flickr
via: dearada

image via: 2 or 3 things I know

“To do it better requires beginning not from theory but from practice, with the grainy particularities of everyday live. In everyday life, people in love or people contemplating marriage ask themselves very specific, concrete questions. Am I really in love, or is this mere infatuation or just plain lust? How can I tell? Is my love for him (or her) reciprocated? How can I be sure? Do I as a man (woman) love in the same way as she (he) loves as a woman (man)? Do we seek the same things from on another? Is sex lovemaking? What has sex to do with love, or love with sex? Is there a difference between being in love and loving? Can my lover also be my friend? Can one be in love with, or can one love, more than one person? Can this love I have last? Forever? Regardless of how we change or what happens to us? How? Is there really somebody out there who is my destiny? Is there somebody out there who will love me, as I am and for myself? Is there somebody out there for me to love? If not now, when?”
excerpt from:
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
by Amy A. Kass & Leon R. Kass

I have answered all these questions … and more.