Ruth Kirk
Seri woman, 1959

Thomas Wright, Ouroboros, “An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe”, 1750

Hands Reading Braille (1993), photographed by Imogen Cunningham

Agnes Martin
Flower in the Wind
1963

Lucidity without the corrective of ambition leads to stagnation. It is essential that the one sustain the other, that the one combat the other without winning, for a work, for a life to be possible...I know peace only when my ambitions sleep. Once they waken, anxiety repossesses me. Life is a state of ambition. The mole digging his tunnels is ambitious. Ambition is in effect everywhere, and we see its traces on the faces of the dead themselves.

Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

Man Ray
Emak Bakia
1926