On November 9, 2015
© By John Arkelian
Sometimes a few words, or a single photograph, can create a visceral
Photograph © 2015 by Belinda Martschinke.
sense of a place we’ve never been – and bestir a powerful desire to take flight and wing our way to the very place that has conjured such yearning in our mind’s eye. The longing thus awakened may be wrenching or it may be soft as down, but it persists, like a compass pointing to the heart’s True North. These few words about Greenland, from Artsforum’s German correspondent Belinda Martschinke, awoke such a desire in us – the intimation of a place as yet unvisited but somehow lodged in our very marrow and in the soft whispering of the soul:
“Never before had I such an intense feeling that nothing else mattered than the single moment, nothing past, nothing in the future, nothing at any other place than where I was at the time. This gave me an incredible peace with myself.”