LIV ULLMANN As Elisabet Volger InPERSONA (1966) Dir. Ingmar Bergman

LIV ULLMANN as Elisabet Volger in PERSONA (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand’

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

"З якого часу тут русалки стали невільницями в озері? Я — вільна! Я вільна, як вода! "

Леся Українка “Лісова пісня”

Photo: The “Siren’s Song” by Marie Zucker 

If you persevere, in time you will have an entirely different problem – not that life is meaningless, but rather that life has almost too much meaning. As the scales fall from your eyes the world rushes into focus, presenting itself with a kind of vibrational eloquence that can, at first, be almost overwhelming. Everything shimmers, everything clarifies, everything wrestles for your attention. Trees feel super-real, their roots plunged into the earth, their branches stretching to the sky, birds are flesh and blood souls, fragile with life, the sky unfolds and rolls, the ocean crashes, people fascinate, books are beautiful, children are whirling dynamos of chaos, dogs bark and cats meow, flowers shout, your neighbour glows, and God runs like a helix through all things. The world awaits you, humming with meaning. You are alive with potential. You are not dead.

— Nick Cave on getting clean, Red Hand Files #258

Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song