matthew dear / black city

I'm...I'm a monkey
Frozen in my monkey dream.
It's time...time to monkey
Lost in our monkey sleep.

via you have been here some time

Philipp Schaerer / Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to

think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the 

mind.  

From Philipp:

The series of images with the title „Bildbauten“ deals with the effect and the 

claim to credibility of images of architecture that appear to be photographs. It 

further questions the medium “photograph” as a documentary piece of evidence 

depicting reality.

Frontal views of fictional architectures serve as an example. By means of their 

exaggerated and orchestrated way of representation, they model themselves on the 

object-like appearance and the formal language of contemporary architecture in a 

rather ironic way. All images try to reproduce a reality. They are not a 

photograph; instead, they were newly designed and constructed from scratch by 

means of image synthesis and digital image editing.

Don Lucho / E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose

Without your love
It's a carnival parade
Without your love
It's a melody played on a penny arcade

R + R / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they 
are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.