the boredom, and the horror, and the glory

Mona Hatoum, Performance Still 1985, 1995.

The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.

T.S. Eliot

o resto

Rodney Graham, Welsh Oaks #2, 1998.

O resto é a sombra

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