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1. When we look at someone (an angel) from a position of unrequited love and imagine the pleasures that being in heaven with them might bring us, we are prone to over-look a significant danger: how soon their attractions might pale if they began to love us back. We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt. But what if such a being were one day to turn around and love us back? We can only be shocked. how could they be divine as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us? If in order to love, we must believe that the beloved surpasses us in some way, does not a cruel paradox emerge when we witness this love returned? 'If s/he really is so wonderful, how could s/he could love someone like me?'
... 7. In the course of a supremely mushy breakfast, I realized something that might perhaps have seemed obvious, but that struck me as both unexpected and complicate: that Chloe had begun to feel for me a little of what I had for many weeks felt for her. Objectively this was not an unusual thought, but in falling in love with her, I had somehow entirely overlooked the possiblity of reciprocation. I had counted more on loving than being loved. And if I had counted more on loving than being loved. And if I had concentrated largely on the former dynamic, it was perhaps because being loved is always the more complicated of the two emotions, Cupid's arrow easier to send than receive. 8. It was this difficulty of receiving that struck me over breakfast, for though the croissants could not have been more buttery and the coffee more aromatic, something about the attention and affection they symbloized disturbed me. Chloe had opened her body to me the night before, in the morning she had opened her kitchen, but I could not not prevent a sense of uneasiness, that bordered on irritation, and amounted to the muffled thought: 'What have I done to deserve this?'  Men's jacket (line 4) worn with a black catsuit, a black micro skirt, two diamond structure rings and black trompe l'œil shoes. From: Maison Martin Margiela Love at first sight.     The sky is the limit ... The "Negative Space" project is a book made of photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and inverted. As "color negatives" of outer space (stars, solar systems, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, and exotic cosmic phenomena) it maps our universe in a book form. The book had been conceived by the artist in collaboration with graphic designer Conny Purtill, on the occasion of Thomson's exhibition at GAMEC, Bergamo. The publication is part of the series of artists’ projects edited by Christoph Keller. English October 2006 ISBN: 978-3-905770-27-8 Softcover, 175 x 255 mm 160 pages Images 100 color CHF 38 / EUR 25 / £ 17 / US 29 Information & photos from JRP-Ringer
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