Abandoned hotel, North Korea, 1987

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

Albert Camus [7th November 1913 - 4th January 1960]

Milano

Ernst Haas, A Car drives down a Desert Road in Twilight, USA, 1967

Tanin no Kao, 1966

Apple TimeBand prototype (1990)

Aubrey Bodine. The Blanket of Snow. 1943

“It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it.”

—Daybreak, §330 (excerpt).