Nigel Van Wieck, Gotcha , 1988

In the Desert by Stephen Crane

In the desert 
I saw a creature, naked, bestial, 
Who, squatting upon the ground, 
Held his heart in his hands, 
And ate of it. 
I said, “Is it good, friend?” 
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; 

“But I like it 
“Because it is bitter, 
“And because it is my heart.”

Jean-Michel Basquiat , Horn Players, 1983

Barry Moser , And the Sea Stopped Raging , 1999

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Artistin (Marzella) , 1910

Giorgio de Chirico , Rising sun on the plaza , 1976

Franz Sedlacek , Approaching Thunderstorm , 1936

Jacob Lawrence, ...again the rebels rushed furiously on our men. -a Hessian soldier, 1956

Edward Moran, The Sea, 1870

Nicholas Roerich , The Doomed City , 1914

Louise Bourgeois , Arch of Hysteria , 1993

Francis Picabia , Veglione, Cannes, 1924 , 1924

Jeffrey Smart , The Observer II , 1983

William Blake, Satan in his Original Glory , 1805

Neil Young, On the Beach

World is turnin'
I hope it don't turn away
The world is turnin'
I hope it don't turn away

All my pictures are fallin'
From the wall where I placed them yesterday
World is turnin'
I hope it don't turn away

I need a crowd of people, 
but I can't face them day to day
I need a crowd of people, 
but I can't face them day to day
Though my problems are meaningless, 
that don't make them go away
I need a crowd of people, 
but I can't face them day to day

I went to the radio interview, 
but I ended up alone at the microphone
I went to the radio interview, 
but I ended up alone at the microphone
Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, 
but those seagulls are still out of reach
Went to the radio interview, 
but I ended up alone at the microphone

Get out of town, 
think I'll get out of town
Get out of town, 
think I'll get out of town
I head for the sticks with my bus and friends
I follow the road, 
though I don't know where it ends
Get out of town, get out of town, 
think I'll get out of town

'Cause the world is turnin'
And I don't want to see it turn away

The Beach Boys, Lonely Sea

René Groebli , The Eye of Love, Brasserie (no.513), 1952

Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen , Romantic Paranoid Landscape , 1935