Angelus Novus
20/11/08 22:40
"A Klee
painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an
angel looking as though he is about to move away from
something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are
staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread.
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His
face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a
chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which
keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his
feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead,
and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is
blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his
wings with such a violence that the angel can no
longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him
into the future to which his back is turned, while
the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This
storm is what we call progress." - Walter
Benjamin.
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America, America
11/11/08 12:05
Straight outta Camden (Kings Cross, actually)
11/11/08 09:48
