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My Inspiration for May 2023
This May was strange; a month of wistfulness and intense yearnings… I was “athirst for far-away things”, and people, to quote Tagore. The most romantic things filled my mind this month artistically; Pre-Raphaelite paintings, the Sleeping Beauty illustrations, paintings by Henri le Sidaner, Elaine, the Lady of Shalott in art and Victorian photography, J.J. Grandville’s series of drawings called ‘Flowers Personified’ which is absolutely fun and whimsical… I’ve been enoying the fields of poppies and the dew-drenched roses, and also Anais Nin’s diaries.
“I am still ashamed of myself, afraid to let myself go, to let things pour out of me; I am dreadfully inhibited, and that is because I have not yet learned to accept myself as I am.”
(Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in
“I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute!I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land…”
(Tagore)
Mary Ellen Mark – Arlo Guthrie & Jacklyn Hyde, 1969
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