In an epistle from his «Cézanne Letters,» poet Ranier Maria Rilke, caught between rapture and melancholy, marveled over the chance discovery of page - pressed sprigs of heather redolent of «the scent of autumn earth... Containing depth... the grave almost...» For Rilke, that heather became an eternalized ambassador of the ephemeral. (brooklynrail.org)
Much of Cuba's infrastructure was built to cater for the American elite in the heady pre-revolutionary days before Castro, and the island is still redolent with imagery of the 1940s and 50s, whether it be Hemingway's old haunts, museums to the exploits of the revolutionaries, the Tropicana Night Club, which still somehow echoes to the sound of Nat King Cole, the hotels run by «Long Legs Diamond» and the events of the Bay of Pigs. (vjv.com)
These photos seem so redolent of life, one experiences a palpable sense of loss or absence at the thought that Twombly died in 2011, three years after these photos were taken. (italianmodernart.org)