Fernand Léger, Les Disques, 1918, Huile Sur Toile, 2400 X 1800 Cm, Musée D’art Moderne, Paris.

Muhammad Ali and Don King enjoying some reading material, 1978.

Cassius Clay and his mother Odessa Grady Clay, Steve Schapiro, Louisville, USA, 1963.

Poët Laval, Drôme, France, 2017. 

Source: Mystic Cheesecake Balloon.

Odilon Redon, Le Bouddha, 1906-1907, pastel sur papier beige, 90 x 73 cm, musée d’Orsay, Paris. 

Source: “Au delà des étoiles, le paysage mystique de Monet à Kandinsky”, 15 mars au 25 juin 2017, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. 

Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom, 2016.

Source: Mystic Cheesecake Balloon. 

Harlem

“What happens to a dream deferred?       Does it dry up       like a raisin in the sun?       Or fester like a sore—       And then run?       Does it stink like rotten meat?       Or crust and sugar over—       like a syrupy sweet?       Maybe it just sags       like a heavy load. Or does it explode?”

- Langston Hugues, Harlem, 1951.

We are all heroes struggling to accomplish our adventure. As human beings, we engage in a series of struggles to develop as individuals and to find our place in society. Beyond that, we long for wisdom: we want to understand the nature of the universe and the significance of our role in it.

Dave Whomsley, “Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand faces”, in Eva M. Thury and Margaret K. Devinney (ed.), Introduction to Mythology, third edition, 2013.

i will wade out                        till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air                                       Alive                                                 with closed eyes to dash against darkness                                       in the sleeping curves of my body Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery with chasteness of sea-girls                                            Will i complete the mystery                                            of my flesh I will rise               After a thousand years lipping flowers             And set my teeth in the silver of the moon

E. E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys, 1923. 

“Muhammed Ali Training at Madison Square Garden”, George Kalinsky, New York, USA, 1967. 

いざ行かむ  Let’s go out 雪見にころぶ  To see the snow view 所まで   Where we slip and fall

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)