Urban scrawl
“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel
ideas
Under construction
“The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing … He must obey his own law, as if it […]
A crack in everything
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life […]
The photographer
“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes […]
Degrees of separation
*** “To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you […]
Apparition
Detail: * * * “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon […]
Internal combustion
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]
Different sides
We find ourselves on different sides Of a line nobody drew Though it all may be one in the higher eye Down here where we […]
Y Pues Nada
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of […]
A generous medium
“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle […]
That elusive wonder
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent […]
Machines of Loving Grace
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where […]
Silhouette Reflection (black and white photo)
Something to read from something I am reading: “It is a longing for the heroic, for a greater seriousness of life than ordinary human beings […]
Balancing chaos
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
