Chiaroscuro

And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione

Duty done.

 I always seem to get the call.  Elise… Never.

Well, I’ve served on two juries and this one was a near miss.  3 sets of numbers were called and we all shuffled up to just outside the courtroom and waited, and waited, and waited… then the judge came out and thanked us and we were off.  I guess a deal was made at the last minute.  I don’t really mind the court part, the last two times it’s been interesting.  It’s the jury room part that gets me, what a master class in interpersonal communications and body language.  Positions being staked, bets being hedged, and others pretending to be wallpaper.

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Rob Wehmeier

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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

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