D'arcy. Dolores. Florence. Herbert. Bono. All Wegbegleiter. Companions to me, unknown to them. They never knew I was in the room. They shaped it anyway.

"Ghosts never frighten people who are used to them." — Paul Auster, The Locked Room

"Per aspera ad astra." Through hardships to the stars.

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." — Albert Camus

“The right moment does not come before the work. The right moment is the work, already in motion.” – RMK

"The dead are not absent, they are invisible." — Victor Hugo

“I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you” – Capt. Wolf Larsen - The Sea Wolf

“Mars is not a Plan B. It is a monument to distraction and fantasy”. – RMK

“I don’t think art should be comfortable. It should be unsettling.” — David Bowie

“Oh, tell me, we both matter, don't we?” – Kate Bush

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil

If you are afraid, do it anyway. – Marina Abramović

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” – Jean Piaget

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” — Native Proverb

The smaller the disappearance, the larger the shadow it leaves behind. – Paul Auster

The image doesn’t vanish in a flash. It drifts away, almost politely, until you question your own memory.

“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me” – Henri Matisse

When I think about Philosophy, I imagine standing before a glacier, its face fractured, its center unknowable, and realizing that knowledge and mystery are the same thing viewed from different distances.

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” - Georgia O'Keeffe

The story feels almost mythic, a painting about chaos, stolen in chaos, swallowed by the world it once tried to depict.