08:45 – She, a mother, stands closer to nothingness than anything else.
09:51 – This proximity defines her, but the birth of her child redefines the brink on which she is precariously positioned.
10:30 – She grins (see associated post)
18:40 – Invisible states ruffle medieval skirts.
18:57 – Without a child, the reality of her days would dissolve into emptiness. This lingers, and threatens to take over, the folding clothes. It could engulf her baby-presenting gesture.
20:34 – ‘The air absorbs all of our actions and they disappear without a trace – I lift up my arm and the air swallows up the gesture and closes again, clear and indifferent, as if nothing had disturbed it’. Blecher, M. (2022, 1971) The Illuminated Burrow: a sanatorium journal, trans. Gabi Reigh, Prague: Twisted Spoon Press.
20:41 – carving boxwood is potentially meaningless and inconsequential.
Rawson, P. (1966) Indian Sculpture, London: Studio Vista. (More on the bookmark item).
