And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
This angle is a carving from the Nederluleå church in Gammelstad, Sweden, built in 1492. We traveled to visit family in Northern Sweden back in 2017. My wife’s brother lives in Lulea, a town 150 miles from the Arctic Circle and on the Bay of Bothnia. The light at this latitude is so wonderfully different from here in the Midwest. I’m not sure if it’s the latitude or maybe European air vs thick midwest air or maybe less pollution.
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955