The Difficult Loves, via Pablo Neruda

LOVE

By Pablo Neruda

photo, Henri Cartier-Bresson

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming

Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.

I have forgotten your face, I no longer

Remember your hands; how did your lips

Feel on mine?

Because of you, I love the white statues

Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that

Have neither voice nor sight.

I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;

I have forgotten your eyes.

Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to

My vague memory of you. I live with pain

That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will

Make to me an irreperable harm.

Your caresses enfold me, like climbing

Vines on melancholy walls.

I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to

Glimpse you in every window.

Because of you, the heady perfumes of

Summer pain me; because of you, I again

Seek out the signs that precipitate desires:

Shooting stars, falling objects.

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The Secret Life of Shadows: Deborah Turbeville at Ralph Pucci, NYC

Currently at the Ralph Pucci showroom, photographer Deborah Turbeville's soft and sexy series, SILENT FILM, stands on display in full elegance and austerity.

the photographs, all taken using a digital camera, portray the telltale weathered and antique elements which have garnered Turbeville's reputation in fashion photography

as the "Anti-Newton".

Some photos reveal a cast of greek and roman statues in the Versailles gardens and estate, much in the same vein as her portfolio of note, Unseen Versailles. Other works represent pastiches of many photographs combined into one total work, which illustrate the narrative of the Carnival at Venice or Paris on a rainy day, for example.

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Disappearing act: Atta Kim, On-Air Project, Monologue of Ice (24 Hours). 2004

The photographs that comprise Atta Kim's On-Air Project (2004-2006), are visually striking, haunting, lurid phosphorescences. Many of the photographs, taken using the time-lapse photography method, render the luminous halos of their subjects. For example, in the photograph above, Monologue of Ice, Kim recorded the adumbrations of a melting block of ice over 24 hours.

Kim also photographs a couple during sexual intercourse in a similar manner, this time lapsing one hour . The hazy image, similar in color and composition to Monologue of Ice, brings to mind the enmeshing of the cosmos, the fantastic imagery of Blake, even the creation of Man on Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling. The metaphysical element of the photographs emerges. Kim captures an ethereal kind of poetry, a dance between duration and simultaneity, the sacrosanct and chaos of decomposition, consummation.

Perhaps the most apocryphal and referential image of the series is Kim's rendition of The Last Supper, which recreates the biblical dinner of Jesus and his apostles, down to the bare architectural detail, in the style of a religious panel.

Atta Kim, On-Air Project, Sex Series (1 Hour). 2003.

Atta Kim, On-Air Project, The Last Supper. 2003

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