And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
I love reflections. It’s kind of like water when I’m not able to be by the water. Water is my favorite. I think I take inspiration from the surrealist like Renee Magritte. Reflections like water are a gateway to the subconscious. C’est n’est pas une pip.
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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