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Jurjen K. van der Hoek

Beschouwing SOULMATES, Swagemakers Collection. Catalogus bij fotografie-expositie in Stedelijk Museum Breda. Uitgave VanSpijk [photo] ArtBooks, 2024.
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TumblrSOULMATES: HET GEVOEL VAN THUISKOMEN“Intussen is duidelijk dat particuliere verzamelaars een essentiële schakel zijn in de kunstsector”, schrijft Henri Swagemakers in het boek dat zijn collectie fotografie als onderwerp heeft. Het boek…
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Elysia Macht

If there's one thing I appreciate #SimonPegg for it's a 2010 interview where he explains his views on 'quantum attraction'.

"micro-decisions drawing people towards each other. It explains how you come across the like-minded, even if it feels like coincidence, dependent on weird things you attribute to fate, but which might actually be assisted coincidence."

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#Soulmates #QuantumAttraction #Fate - or not.

Pegg is reminiscing about the first time he met his wife. It happened after several near-misses. Maureen had been in the same place as Pegg on a few occasions without their actual meeting; prior to that she'd always felt mildly irked by him, from a distance, because of an ex-boyfriend's penchant for sacking off their Friday nights to stay in & watch Spaced. Booked on to the same holiday package to Thessalonica in Greece in 2000, Pegg and Maureen missed each other again in the departure lounge, then throughout a week in the city, finally how-do-you-doing on the shuttle bus riding home from the airport. They were married in 2005, and had a daughter last year. "If I had matured in such a way that had stopped me thinking that sitting at the back of the bus was cool then I would never have met her," says Pegg. "But she went to sit at the back, too– she had the same impulses as me. That's quantum attraction in action." It is a term that crops up in his book, and I ask Pegg to explain it a little more. The inner geek flares; his hands start making shapes. "It's a notion that attraction might actually be maths – but chaotic, fabulous maths. Not fate as some sort of ordained puppet master, rather a consequence of millions of micro-decisions happening simultaneously, drawing people towards each other. It explains how you come across the like-minded, even if it feels like coincidence, dependent on weird things you attribute to fate, but which might actually be assisted coincidence."
Continued: "It's not as crystal-precise as a timepiece," he continues, "and it doesn't always work. Sometimes you're brought together, but you don't meet– Edgar & I worked out we were in the same cinema watching the same film 5 years before we met. Me & Maureen were at the same gigs or dating the same people, but always missing each other. You might get to within a metre of your soulmate, but for some reason that last little inch you don't make. I've met mine, and I'm very lucky. But the whole process of quantum attraction– it's like a drunk with a shotgun." He really does speak like this, an infectious, sprawling swirl of ideas; the training, I guess, of many hundreds of hours of pub-talk with Frost. I'm emboldened enough by Pegg's candidness to ask about his friendship with Chris Martin. It seems significant, somehow, that 2 unassuming West Country boys should enjoy such outrageous success, having known each other before they both became globally famous. Is this quantum… "It's the quantum attraction thing again," says Pegg. "We met because we were both going to do what we did, because we were on a similar path." Pegg explains it as "people with a similar drive, similar interests, similar impulses, being drawn together for that very reason". End of first text. This pic has Pegg in a copper + black suit lounging on top of a glam rococo bar in ivory + pale blue colours. Quoted text in corner says "People expect a certain thing & maybe I want to do something different."
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