would long ago have become a star

that is, in fact, what i meant to say when i wrote you that what surprises me most in each pastel is the unity of feeling in which the object is every time contained; a unique, tempestuous breath of feeling, a unique gesture of passion has, in one fell swoop, moved it close to the heart; it's a total manumission... and still it is you, oh lover of earth and sky, that i sing! still the strength

invisible birds (tiny feet extending)

what birds plunge through is not the intimate space in which you see all forms intensified. (out in the open, you would be denied your self, would disappear into that vastness.)space reaches from us and construes the world: to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. surround it with restraint. it has no limits. not till it is held in

keith berry & distant melodies

58º north dvd, images by iain stewart & sound by keith berry(excerpt here)keith berry and the beauty of distant melodiessome ideas on "distant melodies":1. being in a museum at night, with no light, standing in front of a leonardo da vinci, only barely able to make anything out, just some dark colors and shapes.2. being on a ship at night, in the middle of the ocean, knowing you are surrounded by