Ed Baker, US

 

 

Neighbor   [Neighbors] "There exists a creature who is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes, you hardly notice it and immediately forget again. But as soon as it somehow, invisibly, gets into your ears, it begins to develop, it hatches, and cases have been known where it has penetrated into the brain and flourishes there devastatingly, like pneumococci in dogs which gain entrance through the nose. This creature is your neighbor." —Ranier Maria Rilke Ahead of All Parting: p.266   "Giacometti said: 'One day while I was drawing a young girl something struck me: that is to say, all of a sudden I noticed the only thing that remained alive was the gaze. The rest, the head made into a skull, became equivalent to a death's head. What made the difference between death and the individual was the gaze ... In a living person there is no doubt that what makes him alive is his gaze. If the gaze, that is to say life itself, becomes essential, there is no doubt that what is essential is the head." from James Lord's 'Giacometti a biography' p. 426     2

    

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