111. A Bird And A Tree Say To Him: Friend 🦤🌴
Friends,
Bonjour from Paris, it’s beautiful here!
Here’s three things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. A Poem ❤️
'Love' by Czeslaw Milosz
Love means to look at yourself
the way one looks at distant things
for you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
without knowing it, from various ills–
a bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Then he wants to use himself and things
so that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn’t matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn’t always understand.
2. On Style 👁️
The Return of Hironobu — via Studio Nicholson
Three years ago Creative Director, Nick Wakeman came across Hironobu, an exceptionally stylish octogenarian from the city of Suzuka in Japan’s Kansai region.
"I sent him and his grandson a ton of clothes and they've started sending me these incredible images back"
"Hironobu looks better than any model I could hope for, because he’s wearing the clothes in his own environment, and that’s where the beauty is."
3. Women In Art 🎨
The paintings of Anna Bjerger filling me with all kinds of joy.
“Anna Bjerger is one of the most prominent contemporary Scandinavian painters. The subject matter of her paintings seem to vary, the shadow of a tree on the ground, a skier careering down a mountain, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, an eye. In truth it is unwavering, as she says, the subject matter of her work is painting. Her imagery comes from old photographs, found in the books, outdated hobbyist magazines and travel brochures which cover her studio floor. She talks of rescuing images from history. These images were intended to be useful, to inform someone or to sell something. They had a useful shelf life, then quickly became redundant. Anna Bjerger keeps these images around her, sometimes for years, until they haunt her and need to be painted. The act of painting transmogrifies the image. Set loose from their moorings the images are free to take on new meanings, to open up, to allude rather than state.”
See you next Sunday.