Weekend Reflections

Posting at Weekend Reflections.

October 2013 - Toronto ON

This was part of the Nuit Blanche this year and it is on display until the end of the month at City Hall.

Boris Achour, The Rose Is Without Why : A giant illuminated stretch of text, quoted from the titular poem by 17th-century German philosopher Johannes Scheffler (a.k.a.Angelus Silesius), provided an oblique — not to mention blinding — comment on the nature of art.

“The rose is without why, it blooms because it blooms, it cares not for itself, asks not if it is seen.”