Intimate Immensity
The world is large, but in us it is as deep as the sea.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Immensity is the movement of motionless man. It is a vertical space that opens up within us when we stand before the hollows of time. This ruined room is no longer a cage of brick; it has become an immense intimacy. The peeled walls stretch toward the horizons of memory, and the empty hearth becomes the center of a silent universe where the distance between two doors is as vast as the distance between two stars.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The shell, like the house, is a 'stone plant' that has grown around a dream. When we look at these ruins, we see not the absence of life, but the residue of a life that has secreted its own refuge. It is a carapace of stone where the dream once lived.
— Gaston Bachelard
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A creature that hides in its shell is preparing a 'way out.' This is the paradox of the carapace: it is a tomb that dreams of a door.
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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It feels like India will forever miss a visual heartbeat. A true legend, Raghu Rai had the rare gift of capturing India’s vast complexity through a lens of quiet optimism, forever changing how we perceive the monumental beauty in our daily lives and the deep, lyrical interiority of India
#rip #raghurai #indianphotography #magnumphotos #legend
