Cosimo Damiano

“Keep being sensitive,”
the mountains tell me.
the flowers.
the drink.
the stranger.
the music.
“Keep being sensitive,”
life screams.
delicacy is a forgotten art.
— Christopher Poindexter

From series “Tale of Typhon”, 2023
Mount Etna, Italy
Pigments on kozo paper
(expired film)

“Our increasing impertinence (to use a word which originally meant not just rudeness but lack of relevance) is that we have, somewhere in the march of "civilization", lost the humble amazement of feeling the earth and ourselves to be a prodigious unearned gift from the universe.

How did we make ourselves self-appointed lords of the earth and like spoilt children, throw all gratitude and humility out the window?”
— Susan Murphy, The Koan of the Earth

Susan Marphy Roshi is a Zen teacher who offers a unique spiritual perspective in seeing our ecological crisis as “a tremendous koan set for us by the Earth, speaking to us plainly in words we cannot yet fully understand.” To answer this living koan, we “need to relearn the fundamentals that were once natural to us.”

Reserva de la Biósfera Sian Ka'an
16112023, polaroid (expired)

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Morelos
30112023, Polaroid (expired)

“Memories are what warm you up from the inside.
But they’re also what tear you apart.”
— Haruki Murakami

Costa Oaxaca
01112023, Polaroid