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Ship of Fools / La Jetée (1963)
Bedtime read.
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A couple of designs I’ve made this past week. The first is an excerpt and still from La Jetée (1963). The second is an excerpt from a recent read: Alenka Zupančič’s, What IS Sex? paired with a still from Wings of Desire (1987).
Happy to share some new work for Unsplash x Microsoft — highlighting Holley + Kholi working-from-home on Microsoft’s newest Surface.
Had to submit a recent portrait with my PhD application, so here I am.
Holley + Kholi at home. Photographed on the Leica M240.
…love being always contaminated by pain; but her love was monstrously out of balance — it contained no pleasure at all, her life was wholly a torment.
So I agreed to treat her because I was certain she was suffering, not from love, but from some rare variant which she mistook for love.
/ Irvin Yalom, Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
People you love become part of you — not just metaphorically, but physically. You absorb people into your internal model of the world. Your brain refashions itself around the expectation of their presence. After the breakup with a lover, the death of a friend, or the loss of a parent, the sudden absence represents a major departure from homeostasis. As Kahlil Gibran put it in The Prophet, “And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
In this way, your brain is like the negative image of everyone you’ve come in contact with. Your lovers, friends, and parents fill in their expected shapes. Just like feeling the waves after you’ve departed the boat, or craving the drug when it’s absent, so your brain calls for the people in your life to be there. When someone moves away, rejects you, or dies, your brain struggles with its thwarted expectations. Slowly, through time, it has to readjust to a world without that person.
/ David Eagleman
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