الفن لا شئ سوى الكمال في تقليد الواقع - Roland Barthes

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they said, his images 'spoke too much'; they made us reflect, suggested a meaning — a different meaning from the literal one. Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is (i)pensive(i), when it thinks.

I am either lacerated or ill at ease
and occasionally subject to gusts of life