"...HOW SHALL WE THOSE REQUITE,

 WHO WISH US EVIL, IF WE THUS CONDEMN THE MAN THAT LOVES US?"

  - DANTE BEHOLDS A VISION OF PATIENCE ON THE THIRD CORNICE OF PURGATORY, WHERE THE SIN OF ANGER IS PURGED.  PURGATORIO 15, 101-103

FROM 'THE DIVINE COMEDY' BY DANTE ALIGHIERI, c.1321, TRANSLATION BY H.F. CARY

LENTO.

JOHN TAVENER  /  THE PROTECTING VEIL  


ALONG WITH 'THRINOS' FOR SOLO CELLO, UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST PERFECT PIECES OF MUSIC EVER WRITTEN.

- IT WAS ONE OF OUR GREATEST FEARS, TO BE SEPARATED.  IT WAS SO IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE, SO UNKNOWN TO US.  BUT I THINK IT ENDURED BECAUSE A LARGE PART OF IT WAS ROOTED IN OUR DESIRE TO EACH BE A SINGLE PERSON.  I'D EVEN GO SO FAR TO SAY IT WAS A FANTASY.  

I PAUSED, AND DRANK SOME WATER.  

- I GET ANGRY AT HIM SOMETIMES, FOR DOING WHAT HE DID, THAT SOMEHOW HE GRANTED OUR WISH, BUT I'M ANGRY THAT HE LEFT US, THAT HE LEFT ME.  WE WERE STRONGER TOGETHER, AND HE LEFT ME.  SO NOW I'M ALONE.  BUT I'M FREE, I GUESS.  I'M COMPLETELY FREE...  

THE DOCTOR DIDN'T MOVE, BUT CONTINUED TO GAZE.  

- I'M SORRY.  I'M SORRY TOO.  

- WHY ARE YOU SORRY?  

- BECAUSE I LEFT HIM.  IN SOME WAY I GUESS I LEFT HIM TOO, AND HE HAD NO ONE TO TURN TO.   

THE DOCTOR DIDN'T MOVE, BUT CONTINUED TO GAZE.  

- A FICTIVE CONVERSATION TAKEN FROM A DREAM ABOUT DEATH.

"WAS THIS WHAT IT ALL MEANT - UTTER, INTACT SEPARATENESS, OBSCURED BY HEAT OF LIVING?"

- D.H. LAWRENCE, ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS (1909)

"A CAR ENGINE REVVED IN THE DISTANCE BUT THIS PLACE FELT SO FAR REMOVED THAT THE MAIN ROAD MIGHT HAVE LAIN ON THE OTHER SDE OF A PANE OF THICKENED, FROSTED GLASS.  HE FOUND THAT HE HAD LEFT ALL THOUGHTS OF FAMILY BEHIND AND...FELT AS THOUGH HE HAD RETURNED TO HIS BODY TO FIND IT MADE NEW AND DOUBLY ALERT.  HE FELT HE COULD HAVE SPRUNG UP A TREE WITH THE AGILITY OF A SQUIRREL OR FLITTED THROUGH THE DARKNESS BEYOND WITH THE SILENT ELEGANCE OF A MOTH.  THE ENGINE SOUNDED CLOSE AND HE REMEMBERED HE WAS NO LONGER A VIRGIN AND WOULD NEVER BE QUITE AS YOUNG AND NAÏVELY AIMLESS AS HE HAD BEEN THAT AFTERNOON."

- PATRICK GALE, 'NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION' (2008)

"THE FRAILTY OF EVERYTHING REVEALED AT LAST.  OLD AND TROUBLING ISSUES RESOLVED INTO NOTHINGNESS AND NIGHT.  THE LAST INSTANCE OF A THING TAKES THE CLASS WITH IT.  TURNS OUT THE LIGHT AND IT IS GONE.  LOOK AROUND YOU.  EVER IS A LONG TIME.  BUT THE BOY KNEW WHAT HE KNEW.  THAT EVER IS NO TIME AT ALL."

- CORMAC MCCARTHY, 'THE ROAD' (2006)

LFW GO-SEES /  

SASCHA  WEISSENBORN @ FM 

MISA PATINSZKI @ M±P 

IVAN JOSIPOVIC @ PREMIER 

BASTIAN THIERY @ PREMIER

TOMEK SZALANSKI @ NEVS

REECE SANDERS @ FM

RORY SMITH @ FM

LEVI BROWN @ FM 

TIM HARTFIELD @ M±P

HENRY HATHERLEY @ PREMIER 

ANDY MARTIN @ M±P 

RUBEN @ M±P 

BENNO BAS @ FM

PURGATORIO / 

"...SUCH IS THIS STEEP ASCENT,

 THAT IT IS EVER DIFFICULT AT FIRST,

 BUT MORE A MAN PROCEEDS, LESS EVIL GROWS.

  WHEN PLEASANT IT SHALL SEEM TO THEE, SO MUCH

 THAT UPWARD GOING SHALL BE EASY TO THEE

 AS IN A VESSEL TO GO DOWN THE TIDE,

 THEN OF THIS PATH THOU WILT HAVE REACHED THE END.

  THERE HOPE TO REST THEE FROM THY TOIL.  NO MORE

 I ANSWER, AND THUS FAR FOR CERTAIN KNOW."

- VIRGIL TO DANTE, PURGATORIO 4, 85-93

FROM 'THE DIVINE COMEDY' BY DANTE ALIGHIERI, c.1321, TRANSLATION BY H.F. CARY

SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA & ANDREAS BRUNNHAGE @ ELITE FOR PALMER//HARDING AW12 

/ 

HAIR  /  MAKI TANAKA

MAKEUP  /  NATSUMI NARITA

PHOTO ASSISTANT  /  EMMA GIBNEY

SPECIAL THANKS TO SIMON & RYAN @ PROLIGHTING

AMELIA & HOLLY @ ELITE LONODN

PAUL & SUZANNE HARDING

SHE KNEW WHAT WAS COMING. 

TOYIN FOR KIM JONES AW03 

FEATURE / 

PALMER//HARDING FEATURE & INTERVIEW FOR BON MAGAZINE SS12 

WORDS  /  SABRINA SHIM  

GROOMING  /  SUNGHEE PARK

PORTRAIT / 

MATTHEW HARDING AND LEVI PALMER, OF PALMER//HARDING 

PHOTOGRAPHED AT THEIR STUDIO IN RICKMANSWORTH FOR THE INDEPENDENT. 

/ 

I SHOT THEIR BEAUTIFUL AW12 COLLECTION ON SATURDAY, WHICH I'M MANICALLY RETOUCHING AS IT GOES TO PRINT FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING.  I CAN'T WAIT TO POST THE FINAL IMAGES!

GO-SEE /   

CHARLIE JONES @ PREMIER.  

GO SEE / 

KRISTOFFER @ ELITE.  

WATCH OUT FOR THIS ONE.

12.10.11 

MAX RENDELL @ ELITE.

I HAD A LOT OF COFFEE THIS MORNING.  AND THIS IS HOW I'M CURRENTLY FEELING...

GO-SEE DAY / 

JOHN CHERKAS @ M±P

HANA HUCINOVA @ ELITE

I HAVE JUST UPDATED MY SITE WITH LOTS OF LOVELY NEW WORK 

: ) 

CLICK THE ABOVE GIF & HAVE A LOOK.