"The Faithful Colt"

Little Italy, NY, 1981

“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §80 (excerpt).

“Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §78.

Ivan Aivazovsky - Among the waves

Grey’s Scouts (mounted infantry unit) of the Rhodesian Army with a G3.

I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where the idea that the universe is a void but a kind of positively charged void, and then particular things appear when the balance of the void is then disturbed. I like this idea very much that the fact it’s not just nothing, things are out there, it means means something went terribly wrong, that what we call creation is a kind of cosmic imbalance, a cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. I’m even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract this is to assume the mistake and go to the end, we have a name for this… it’s called Love.

- Slavoj Zizek