JAVIER BALLESTER
 

Photography by Susana Paiva. #hexapoda

#hexapoda #lisboa #portugal #photography

Mordeduras. Galeria Câmara Lenta. Rua Quintinha 31. Lisboa. #câmaralenta #lisboa #portugal #exhibition

“It’s all about stopping time, possessing things, holding onto them. I think photography is the most anti-Zen activity. And you know, if my goal was to be a healthy person, photography would not be the thing. I have this joke about becoming a binoculographer: you go around and look at the world without photographing. That would be a spiritually healthy way of taking things in. But this wanting to possess is not so healthy.” ALEC SOTH. #alec #soth #photography

#hexapoda #granada #escuela #artes

“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. ” Philip K. Dick. #philipkdick

«el bicho hombre ha perdido entre tanta técnica comunicativa su "toma de tierra" y anda flotando, en manos de los manipulantes, a punto de enloquecer o de inhibirse sumergido en ese acuarium "mass media".» Val del Omar. #valdelomar

#visionado #portfolio #trapiche

“Existía entre nosotros, como ya he dicho en alguna que otra parte, ese vínculo que otorga el mar. Mantenía unidos nuestros corazones durante largos períodos de separación, pero además tenía la fuerza de volvernos tolerantes ante las experiencias personales y ante las convicciones de cada uno.....” Joseph Conrad, extraído de “El corazón de las tinieblas”. #joseph #conrad #corazón #tinieblas

#loren #ruben #baywatch

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. I believe in the death of tomorrow, in the exhaustion of time, in our search for a new time within the smiles of auto-route waitresses and the tired eyes of air-traffic controllers at out-of-season airports. I believe in madness, in the truth of

"To imagine is not to dream, imagination is rebellion, transgression, ambition, it is a voluntary act that goes beyond our fears to face their causes." Boualem Sansal, from his reading for the Opening of the festival "Passa Porta", on 20 March 2013. #sansal #boualem #passaporta #imagination #rebellion