“there are other elements of course - our lives cannot be measured by single concepts no matter how large they may be - but time and again i think we return to the things that fascinate, the things that intrigue, the things we cannot quite tear ourselves away from. the themes of our lives.”

• berkeley’s ‘esse est percipi’ (to be is to be perceived)
• the social model of disability
• flowers and floriography
• the act of collecting and archiving
• ways of seeing - john berger

less substantial motifs

• weathering with you (2019, dir. makoto shinkai)
• だれかの心臓になれたなら (i want to be your heart) - yurrycanon