Camera lucida

I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality as seen through the whole of our body, the reality of existence, of nothingness, the reality of consciousness.

Emila Medková, response to an “Inquiry on Surrealism” in samizdat anthology Signs of the Zodiac, #1, Prague, January 1951

photos taken in London, summer 2001