Saturday, 7 July 2012

Fragmented thoughts

My mind is numb, and my soul limp, so I search for enrichment, diversion hope in the words and thoughts of others.

From In the woods there were chainsaws.

'Memory is a dog, which lies down wherever it likes'. - Cees Nooteboom

'My memory has given me a sentence, which is different and perhaps even better than the original. I do not know if that is good or bad. What I do know now is where my incorrigible optimism stems from and my related refusal to accept cynicism as a proper attitude to life: they originate in a malfunctioning of my brain that preserves certain things better and more beautiful then they were, while the rest drains away through a coarse-mesh sieve.' - Berlinde de Bruyckere

'If our thoughts and actions are but splinters of glass, broken by others, then walking in ice was a fragmentation bomb that put into words the feelings and these sculptures into being'. - Berlinde de Bruyckere

It is as if, her sculptures express my pain and emptiness.