“Many of us have tasted a transcendence of the ordinary way of perceiving things–that there is another life of promise and possibility, but we don’t just explode into it and become holy whiteness forever. We ascend and descend on ladders, and unfortunately, when we descend, we usually forget…” –Luke Storms: an excerpt from “What Is.” A musing on the Intense City blog. Painting: Moonrise by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich, 1822

“Many of us have tasted a transcendence of the ordinary way of perceiving things–that there is another life of promise and possibility, but we don’t just explode into it and become holy whiteness forever. We ascend and descend on ladders, and unfortunately, when we descend, we usually forget…”

–Luke Storms: an excerpt from “What Is.” A musing on the Intense City blog. Painting: Moonrise by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich, 1822

Caspar David Friedrich, Evening Landscape with Two Men Oil on canvas, 1830-1835. From liquidnight.

Caspar David Friedrich, Evening Landscape with Two Men Oil on canvas, 1830-1835. From liquidnight.

Caspar David Friedrich, Evening [1821] “… Joseph Koerner has written… sensitive lines about the effect of those two figures in the painting. Put a finger over the painting, he suggests, blocking out the figures. Immediately the restlessness is calmed… Lift the finger, though, and the landscape suddenly turns and centers on those two figures. They haul us into the scene and from then on we are always moving: it is as if we are left behind, rushing to catch up, and they are ahead, farther into the darkness. We are always late, even later than they are.” - James Elkins, Pictures & Tears Thank you, invisiblestories.

Caspar David Friedrich, Evening [1821]

“… Joseph Koerner has written… sensitive lines about the effect of those two figures in the painting. Put a finger over the painting, he suggests, blocking out the figures. Immediately the restlessness is calmed… Lift the finger, though, and the landscape suddenly turns and centers on those two figures. They haul us into the scene and from then on we are always moving: it is as if we are left behind, rushing to catch up, and they are ahead, farther into the darkness. We are always late, even later than they are.”

- James Elkins, Pictures & Tears

Thank you, invisiblestories.

Caspar David Friedrich, “The Chasseur in the Forest,” 1814 (from amare-habeo via ihatemusic1943)

Caspar David Friedrich, “The Chasseur in the Forest,” 1814 (from amare-habeo via ihatemusic1943)

(Source: missfolly)

Caspar David Friedrich, A Walk at Dusk, ca. 1830 from moonlitcorner & themetropolitanline.

Caspar David Friedrich, A Walk at Dusk, ca. 1830 from moonlitcorner & themetropolitanline.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich