Sophie Calle, My mother, my cat, my father, 2017, Perrotin
Tag: loss
We console ourselves with fantasies of bouncing back but we must hold on to what has really happened and not cover it with imagining how we are to unhappen it. Void makes loss a reality.
Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, 502–3.
As is well known, the return of the beloved
does not correct
the loss of the beloved
Persephone the Wanderer – Louise Glück
(via ghostwithbones)
sophie calle from exquisite pain
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 2010. Photo: Hindrik Sijens/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
from “Letter to a Lost Friend,” Barbara Hamby
Sophie Calle, Exquisite Pain, 1984-2003
Little Bristling Soul 