A moving prism

  Image: Marc Chagall, La vita (1964) » As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires […] And I think of Bloy’s words: “there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.” ― The Neutral : Lecture Course at the College de France, Roland Barthes; p 13 

Lisa Oppenheim, “Lunagram 9,” 1851/2010, silver toned photogram, exposed to moonlight » Soon (or simultaneously) the question is no longer ‘Why don’t you love me?’ but ‘Why do you only love me a little?’ How do you manage to love a little? What does that mean, loving ‘a little’? I live under the regime of too much or not enough; greedy for coincidence as I am, everything which is not total seems parsimonious; what I want is to occupy a site from which quantities are no longer perceived, and from which all accounts are banished. – A Lover’s Discourse , Roland Barthes