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

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world, the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true."

- Hannah Arendt

Balthasar Burkhard, La vague, 1995

Dima Zverev. Bronze statue of a Red Army soldier at Ploshchad Revolutsii Station. Moscow. April. 2013