(via Richard Mosse)
…Jim’s wife Linda says of her husband and the buffalo: “They have shared a bond since Bailey Junior was only a few weeks old when we adopted him after the tragic death of the first buffalo that Jim and I had raised. Bailey Sr had become a family member. I guess he became our baby. I know that sounds bizarre.”
Picture: Sautner Family / Barcroft USA (via Pictures of the day: 9 November 2011 - Telegraph)
TERROR IN MY HEART
this animal is enormous
Yves Klein, Harry Shunk, Janos Kender - Leap into the Void, 1960
The leap into the void is sometimes read as a Buddhist phrase about enlightenment, about embracing emptiness that is not lack as it seems to westerners, but letting go of the finite and material, embracing limitlessness, transcendence, freedom, enlightenment. “Come with me into the void!’ wrote Klein, “You who like me, dream / of that wonderful void / That absolute love…”
—Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
(via iwantmybearsuit)