the idea of innocence doesn't occupy me much. childhood, yes, 
that i work with very much, but often the child in whom
innocence has been destroyed or denied.

                                                             -ilka shonbein.


the force of this animation
depends on our tracking of unacknowledged or neglected powers,
seeking for them as if for a nourishment,
a means if testing what is given,
the life you know or that you think you know...
the life of survival, the encounter
with something
that might have died.

                                                              -kenneth gross.