Top: Candle, Pegasus Print, 2009

Above: A Dream, Pegasus Print, 2009

It’s safe to say, candle
Tonight’s the day, candle
It’s alright now, candle
The wind’s away, candle

(Candle, Sonic Youth 1987)

Ah, my own past is enough to burden me. I have no need for someone else’s. But I need other’s images to revivify my own. I need others’ reveries to remind me of my work in the faint light, to remind me that I too have been a candle dreamer.

(Bachelard, Gaston The Flame of a Candle, Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture, 1988)