S W O O N D: can't take my eyes off of you

11.10.2007

can't take my eyes off of you

I'm strangely fascinated by this. And, you might ask, what is it?

I'll tell you. It's a Jon Eric Riis tapestry, and it hangs in the living room (see below) of a house that Andersson-Wise Architects renovated in Austin, Texas.

I had to post it here. Just because.

:interior design, art gray photography

3 comments:

purple area said...: Really great house, I also like the way they have split up the furniture in the livingroom. Amazing tapestry!; 11/11/2007
Maryam in Marrakesh said...: I am totally fascinated by that, too. It's riveting.; 11/16/2007
Luisa Perkins said...: Aaagh, it's so gorgeous, I'm gnashing my teeth with envy.; 11/27/2007

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the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

- w. b. yeats

sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

- tom robbins

the same dream returned each night until i dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. i dreamed i had a child, and even in the dream i saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and i ran away. but it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. until i thought, if i could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps i could sleep. and i bent to its broken face, and it was horrible . . . but i kissed it. i think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.

- arthur miller, after the fall

YIN AND JUNG

who looks outside, dreams;

who looks inside, awakes.

everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

when we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. we wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. but to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

- carl jung, the stages of life