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And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain only drowning men...
Doodles
These are the doodles that Hilde Van Gelder has created for her book Ground Sea. Photography and the Right to Be Reborn. An integral part of her experimental art historical practice, they were made between 2017 and 2019, and are numbered 1 to 33.
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It’s nearly ten years since I left the shade of the coconut palms. Pounding the asphalt, my imprisoned feet recall their former liberty, the caress of warm sand...
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In the Mainz cathedral there had been three altar panels, with facing fronts and reverse sides painted, one of them showing a blind hermit w...
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Calais, Mister President, does no longer belong to the Calaisiens, nor does it belong to the exiles; Calais belongs to the smugglers. Afghan smugglers, but also...
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Something in the proliferations of immanence tends to overtake the vertical world, to reverse it, as if the hierarchy bred a particular anarchy, and the love of...
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After “breakthrough,” the British witnessed la difference.* The French section was generally swisher and better-lit, it contained a shrine to St Barbara, the&nb...
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I could not help reflecting how much more pleasure it must give one to protect life than to take it away; and how much happier [the fisher] must be in catching ...
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In the aftermath of striation, the sea reimparts a kind of smooth space, occupied first by the “fleet in being,” then by the perpetual motion of the strategic s...
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Although there are only a few of us left who played an active part in the Second World War, for us it’s insulting, an out-and-out mockery, what these pusillanim...
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This land is you, no, that’s a bit too much, the land allows you to introduce your ideas any time, but only you, well, not quite the only one, but you as well, ...