Women Reading: Forecast

“A storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progres.”

Walter Benjamin on Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920)

Paul Klee Angelus Novus (1920)

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