Aron Ralston

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

- Francis Bacon

Poster for The Face of Another (他人の顔), 1966, by Hiroshi Teshigahara

“There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
― Antonin Artaud

Robert Mangold, Imperfect Circle, 1973

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

- Albert Camus

Andreas Feininger, The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock), New York, 1951

Skjaerer, Theodor Severin Kittelsen

Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen

“It is not man but his revenge that is so subtle, rich, and inventive. He himself is hardly aware of it.”

—Daybreak, §228 (edited excerpt).

Peter Murphy of Bauhaus dancing with a strobe light at the Locarno, Birmingham, October 1981

Slowdive chilling in a graveyard, in front of Eric Arthur Blair's grave, also known as George Orwell

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.”
― Antonin Artaud

Blooms of Insect Wings created by photographer Seb Janiak