knight of cups
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
“At once, as soon as I saw it, The Glory looked like my own self.
I saw it in all of me, And saw me all in [all of] it, –
That we were twain in distinction, And yet again one in one likeness.
I saw, too, the Treasurers also, Who unto me had down-brought it,
Were twain [and yet] of one likeness; For one Sign of the King was upon them –
Who through them restored me the Glory, The Pledge of my Kingship.”
words i · soren kierkegaard from the sickness unto death on the danger of losing one’s sense of self.
film · knight of cups by terrence malick loosely follows the hymn of the pearl with echoes of existentialism and navigating between the finite and the infinite.
sculptures · many of james turrell’s sky space pieces play with the perception of light and color by manipulating what is known and finite with what is expansive and ever-changing.
words ii · from the hymn of the pearl - the acts of thomas which describes the moment in which the prince is reacquainted with his true self. the original author is unknown but is attributed by some to the syriac or parthian gnostic, bardaisan.
painting · caravaggio’s sacrifice of isaac represents the truest example of the knight of faith, researched and written extensively by kierkegaard, and explored in our film.
sound · pink floyd · us and them