Just out of View

Over last weekend we had some time to kill while waiting to meet up with Ryan at camp.  Elise and I took a moment to sit by the lake and enjoy the morning.  It was a beautiful sight watching the small sailboats from the summer camp skimming across the lake.

I became fixed on a rock in the water that was just below the surface.  It never really poked through but as the waves would pass the surface of the water would show signs that it was down there.  I know the rock is there.  I can see its shape, sort of.  I know it’s there because it creates splashes and ripples as the waves pass.  Even so, really seeing the rock is just out of reach.  Maybe if the lake were quieter I would see clearly.



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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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