Adore each other. Be fiendishly smitten. Be frantically in love. Can there be too many perfumes, too many rosebuds, too many nightingales? Can lovers love each other too much, be too enchanting, too beguiling, too charming? Is it possible to be too much alive, too happy? Adore each other, and never mind the rest.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
Robert Smithson
Mirrors and Shelly Sand, 1969-1970
Fifty 12-inch x 48-inch mirrors, back to back; beach sand with shells or pebbles
96 in. × 30 ft. (243.8 × 914.4 cm) approx.
(via vernaleternal)
Rebecca Horn, Cockatoo Mask, 1973 (stills from Cockfeather Mask Perfomance II)
Horn described using this mask in a performance exploring ideas of sexual availability and intimacy: ‘My face is covered by two intertwined, closed feather wings. The person standing before me touches the feathers delicately, then separates and opens the wings. The spread wings stretch like long bird wings, and softly enclose around [both] our heads. The feather-enclosure isolates our heads from the surrounding environment, and forces us to remain intimately alone, together.’ The use of the mask is deliberately ambiguous and the performance implies a tension between tenderness and aggression. (Text Via)