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

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

At present I have the feeling I don’t live anywhere. I am suffering complete agony, I, not only don’t live here, I am never even present here.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Boris Pasternak June, 21, 1926