And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
This is from a recent outing down the old Santa Fe mainline which is now the BNSF’s high-priority freight line between Chicago and Southern California. This line is also known as the Southern Transcon. I love to get out on a nice day to photograph, listen to a good book, and explore. I pick one of the many busy rail lines we have here to follow out into the county. There’s a lot to discover, traveling from one small town to the next.
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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