Moebius: Starwatcher, illustrated by Jean Giraud, 1986

Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

Zhao Shao’ang, Cicadas and Willow, 1958

The Pillow Book (1996), dir. Peter Greenaway

Aliyah, Jurij Treskow, 2014

"Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It’s no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes. Some of the best American thrillers have been set in the desert - The Getaway, The Hitcher, Charley Varrick, Blood Simple. Given that there is no time past and no future, the idea of death and retribution has a doubly threatening force."

- J.G Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (1970)

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre