Polikarpa Papichula

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
― William Blake

“For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death. ”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography