Reading List
These are texts & projects that inform the work I’m doing, directly or tangentially. If you’re local to the Smokies, you can come borrow them. If you see a book that I’m missing out on, please let me know.
Additional scraps
“I can taint the whole universe with my wretchedness without feeling it or collecting it together within myself.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact.
It is better to say ‘I am suffering’ than ‘this landscape is ugly’.”
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
“All of my life a voice has whispered softly in my ear, live, live live! It was death. “
andy goldsworthy, wood room
Sadao Watanabe: St. Francis preaches to the birds, 1971
“Imagine a Carthage sown with salt, and all the sowers gone, and the seeds lain however long in the earth, till there rose finally in vegetable profusion leaves and trees of rime and brine. What flowering would there be in such a garden? ...And here again is a foreshadowing—the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one’s hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.
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