ancient soul

<n>Mountain Lake</n> (2023) by <n>Sky Glabush</n>, presented by <n>Stephen Friedman Gallery</n>.

Monks from <n>Mount Sichimen monastery</n> before <n>Mount Fuji</n>, Japan, 1961. Photo by <n>Burt Glinn</n>.

The artwork <n>Peace Out</n> by <n>Cult Class</n>.

<n>Leslie Cheung</n> and <n>Rowena Cortes</n> in <n>Clifford Choi</n>'s 1982 film <n>Teenage Dreamers</n>.

A photograph of the <n>Nuba people</n> in Sudan by <n>Leni Riefenstahl</n> from her 1982 book.

A still from the 1981 film <n>Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo</n>.

Stage design for <n>Parsifal, Act 2, Scene 1</n> by director <n>Wieland Wagner</n>, 1958.

A still from the 1984 film <n>Paris, Texas</n>, directed by <n>Wim Wenders</n>.

A still from the 1966 film <n>Andrei Rublev</n> by director <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n>.

<n>Tuareg tents</n> in the Sahara Desert, Morocco.

A still from the 1985 film <n>Ran</n>, directed by <n>Akira Kurosawa</n>.

A still from the 1987 film <n>Wings of Desire</n>, directed by <n>Wim Wenders</n>.

An editorial photograph for the Japanese fashion label <n>Comme des Garçons</n>.

From the <n>Song of the Sea</n> series by photographer <n>Diane Powers</n>.

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”


— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

Actors <n>Iva Bittová</n> and <n>Juraj Nvota</n> in a still from <n>Dušan Hanák</n>'s 1976 film <n>Rose Tinted Dreams</n>.

“Thank you for the tragedy. 
I need it for my art.”

— Kurt Cobain

The <n>Philae Temple Complex</n> in Aswan, partially submerged in the Nile flood before 1968.

Tired but Alive, from the series <n>Quinn</n> by photographer <n>Lottie Davies</n>.

A 2006 portrait of <n>Janet Jackson</n> by photographer <n>Stewart Shining</n>.

A photograph from the series <n>Pure of Sight</n> by <n>Huang Jing</n>.

A still from the 2002 film <n>Blue</n>, directed by <n>Hiroshi Ando</n>.

I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions.
Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.

— Sylvia Plath

<n>Zen</n>, a 1969 photograph from the <n>Japanesque</n> series by <n>Ikko Narahara</n>.