Literature

Kerry Mansfield remembers long afternoons in her elementary school's library. Tugged by nostalgia, she began photographing old books and the ephemera of the library experience.

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Tom Schiller's 1975 short documentary (35mins) follows Henry Miller in his home in New York. He brings the viewers into his bathroom to talk about the many postings plastered on his washrooms walls. The connection that he shares with the imagery is as captivating as the visual brilliance. I am drawn to the voice and the over all great story telling that the author was famous for.

“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”

- Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than
too late.”

- Charles Bukowski, “oh yes”
From war all the time: poems, 1981-1984

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

- Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle