Pre-Texts7/21/2019 Photographs are not texts, only pre-texts, their silence permitting one to frame a glimpse of something prior and beyond textuality. One is, however, drawn back into textuality, the minute one opens one’s mouth, puts pen to paper, or posts online.
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Bookshelf7/20/2019 If not in life, at least on my bookshelf Robert Capa, Sonny Rollins, and Oscar Wilde converse.
Knowledge7/19/2019 In our age, when experience is instantaneously converted into images, might not photography be considered a form of knowledge in itself, before being critically or academically translated?
Cadences7/17/2019 The poetry of photography lies in its capacity to jog us out of the usual cadences to which we are used.
Suspension7/16/2019 The poetry of photography requires that Knowledge’s assurance be suspended. (With thanks to Nicolas Calas).
Hybridigital7/15/2019 The hybridigital work traces the passage between different media, both analogue and electronic, with their in-betweenness hollowing out a space of unrepresentable reality.
Embirikos7/13/2019 ‘My eyelids are transparent theatre-curtains. When I open them I see before me whatever happens to be there. When I close them I see before me whatever I desire’ - Andreas Embirikos, from Inner Land, translated by Roderick Beaton.
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