Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Photon: Untamed



Once the spirit is tamed, could it possibly be untamed?
yes, you can teach a tiger how to forget its fear of fire and jump through flaming hoops but can you teach him how to forget? how to be wild again?
is the tiger thankful because a man taught him how to overcome his fear? or was his fear of fire only replaced by a new one: the fear of man?


(illustration by Yoshitaka Amano)

Monday, October 03, 2005

Photon: Adoptive Mother

Erika, why do you keep aborting me? I feel like I'm nothing but a foreign tissue on your womb and you keep rejecting me. Why am I not allowed to develop, to grow, to set my tired veins into you and eventually be born?

What type of mother are you, that only have eyes for your own children? I fell on your nest I know, by accident, but Im not feeding on your children, Im not the cuckoo's egg. I love your children as well as I love you.

Your breasts are full of milk, proud, wealthy mother of beautiful sunsets and foggy cold mornings, so much for you to give and so much sweat, love and admiration for me to offer and yet you won't see me as your son.