When Is Society Gonna Bring Back Tea Parties? I Don't Wanna Go To A Bar, I Want To Sit At A Round Table

by Valentin Duciel

The spiral bath by Issei Suma

Nobuyoshi Araki:  Yakuza  (1994)

At the shore of dark skies

Photographed by Freddie Ardley - Instagram

“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”

— Why I adore the night, by Jeanette Winterson

Paris Petridis. The Void and the Country |Terrace, Garden City, Cairo. 2010.

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sometimes, when the light by Lisel Mueller