"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
Franz Kafka
Benjamin Heller is a photographer and multimedia artist based in New York City. He grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work explores a connection between the movement of the body, transformation and the power of the physical world. More focused on transformation than documentation, he has an active process of entering the action from the inside; beginning an improvisation with the subject or environment. His work seeks to create images and environments with a self-contained narrative that sparks our imagination within the stillness of a single moment. Art can create a place to be, somewhere to fall into; a space to disappear into in order to fully emerge. The image or space becomes a world in itself in which life happens from the inside out.
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"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
Soren Kierkegaard (via makethemdream)
(Source: whatokay, via makethemdream)
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"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use."
tao te ching (translated stephen mitchel)
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"Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
― Kurt Vonnegut
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