“So tell me baby, what do you know about this great big world of ours?” “Not a damn thing sugar,”
I like the contrast of fantasizing about the big world outside of you, while being confined to this small space, and this also relates to this quote:
"...how life emanates from the small space we occupy in the world."
I spend most of my time in a tiny room in a small apartment, and I keep pretty much everything I own in there, it's cluttered, I can't move in there, I can never find anything, but I'm home, and I feel comfortable occupying that space.
These two quotes seemed profound to me:
"To collect photographs is to collect the world"
"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed"
Maybe not with photographs, but I take a lot of little videos on this crappy old camcorder that I have. Time feels like it's going by so fast, and there's this urgency to capture the things happening around, to collect moments that you can later look back on. There's this film called "It's Such a Beautiful Day", and it's about a guy who has problems with his brain and begins to lose all of his memories, and as it's happening the narrator says "all these things, the people he's met, his experiences, everything he was, was just sort of a vague feeling now". I'm terrified that one day I'll look back and see only blurry outlines of what my life was, so I tend to film a lot of what I see on a daily basis. It's like I'm hoarding memories for when I can't remember them anymore.
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