Untitled (Staphorst)In this mediation between being and non-being we can do nothing else than continually behave as camera-genic as possible. See and be seen via the image has become a cultural and existential duty. This primacy of image and visibility however is no universal, natural condition: Islams interdict on images originally, according to the second commandment, also applied to Christendom.
Driving Miss PalmenI understand why you want to be a writer. Its better to be mediocre and famous than just being mediocre. But the difference between you and me is that Im able to create a character of myself in a story I choose to live in. And you, Im sorry to say, are not. That makes me a writer and you just a character in someone elses plot. And as for my work: The big misunderstanding about my work is that critics keep comparing the fictious Connie Palmen with the real Connie Palmen, instead of comparing her to other great characters in litterature, like Madame Bovary, or Lolita...
Call meIts either filthy thoughts or intellectual blah-blah, and nothing in between. Look closer. More closer. Look at me! You hear me?! If theres any reason for me to be ashamed, its you. The only reason Im standing in front of the town hall is because I happened to have been created by a world-famous sculptor: Rodin, the genius of deep emotions and existential gestures. Yeah right. The way Im standing here, Rodin is the only person whos never once laid a finger on me.