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

Miya Ando, Kumo, 2016