Clarity

These blinds provide the right amount of privacy without blocking out views of the world outside the house. The oak tree that I'm looking out to here has lost all its leaves now, allowing us to see through the branches and allowing new views to be seen from the house.

'No divorce between the artist and the intellectual. No separation between art & life. No conflict between the sacred and the profane'.  Jean-Marie STRAUB on J.S Bach 

My Aunt said something along the same lines to me over Easter after we'd both just been to a concert of J.S Bach's B Minor Mass in a Presbyterian church, neither of us being particularly religious. She said that it can't be known for sure that Bach truly was as religious as people speculate today. 

I'm interested in harmoniously being two things at once that supposedly or traditionally exist in conflict.  But Bach's compositions for just about every instrument clicks with me- my senses and my young, inexperienced mind. 

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The need for silence 

For my first post on this new blog I'm going to add an image of Tilda Swinton from Béla Tarr's 2007 film, The Man from London, which I watched yesterday.  Most of the people in the film struggled to articulate their thoughts and concerns with their counterparts and were often filmed in close-up alone and in moments of intense introspection (as you can see in this image here).  I'm going to use this blog as an attempt to articulate some of my thoughts and experiences, and try my hardest to share them in a straightforward but sophisticated fashion. 

In my break (gap year) this year after finishing high school last year, and before beginning university next year, I've been doing a great deal of thinking and not having to come up with answers to things... ruminating or incubating I guess you could call it.  I have the privilege of being alone in my inarticulacy, encountering it and accepting it, which I think is something that Swinton continues to embody in her various roles in film.  

An image from The Man from London, Béla Tarr- a brilliant film.