Lightship | the Art Journal of Cory Basil

Lightship | the Art Journal of Cory Basil

Welcome to Lightship.

Less of a guide, more of a light in the darkness.

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Cory Basil
Feb 06, 2022

As with all of life’s mysteries, it’s quite something that behind the words you’re reading there is another human. Out of all of the letters, and all of the words, in all of the world’s languages, these are the only ones that I’ve strung together.

And that has to mean something. Because either it’s all meaningless, or it’s all meant to be. With a head full of existentialism, and a heart that’s seen too much, I struggle to trust in the later. But I have to take the later, and so do you. Somedays it’s the only thing that keeps us here.

My name is Cory Basil, and these are my words. The words I’ve strung together while trying to find meaning in all of this stardust madness.

photograph of Cory Basil writing at the White Horse Tavern in New York City. Photograph taken by Donny Smutz
[White Horse Tavern, NYC — photo by Donny Smutz]
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