The Double Life of Veronique (1991) dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski

“When connections are real, they simply never die. They can be buried, or ignored or walked away from, but never broken. If you deeply resonated with another person or place, the connection remains despite any distance, time, situation, lack of presence, or circumstance. If you’re doubtful then just try it – go and visit a person or place and see if there’s any sense at all of the space between now and then. If it was truly real, you’ll be instantly swept back into the moment it was before it left – during the same year and place with the same wonder and hope, comfort and heartbeat.”

— VICTORIA ERICKSON

Ed van der Elsken

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

― T.S. Eliot

‘I love those who yearn for the impossible.’ -

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2, 1832

“Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.”

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Jack Kornfield

Georges Merle

Siobhán McKenna photographed by Gjon Mili in Ireland, 1956.

Paul Winstanley

Celia Paul

Andrew Cranston, Addiction to an old mattress, 2018,

Elizabeth Magill ‘East wind’ , 2010

Andrew Cranston,  THOUGHTS OF NORTH ROMA, 2018, Oil on hardback book cover

LUCILE HAEFFLINGER, Crumbs, 2021