When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. Yourself is a sun with a thousand fires in your belly. The rest is nothing.
I first came across that Picasso quote last August in a relatively quiet bridge underpass in Zurich. It was late morning but there wasn’t any sun; a slight drizzle resumed its previous incarnation as a downpour forcing me to run for cover. I wound up next to these words attributed to Picasso and a Pussy Riotesque print with a halo hovering over a ski mask-covered face. Those 15 minutes at this ad hoc gallery, apparently a favorite haunt for creative pamphleteers, would be the most illuminating I’d spent in the rain in a very long time. And not a single ray of sunshine.
A few more snaps, all shot with a GoPro, are below. Another dozen shots (along with a brief lessons in the origins of Dada), taken earlier during the same rainy morning stroll, are here.
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The countdown is here! What country will you visit first? Z
Flying into Buenos Aires, in 46 days. (Not that I’m counting.)
Your posts are going to be so great, and I look forward to playing Walter Mitty and imagining myself shadowing your journey!
I have a friend who has lived nad done a lot of travel in Brazil. Have you talked with anyone there? I’m not sure where he is right now, I think in transit somewhere south of the line of the Equator, but which country would be a huge guess!
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I had never heard that quote but I love it. Thanks for sharing.
Yup – I dig it too!
Nice images!