Category: Ex Situ
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unexpected encounters #7: aesthetics
Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be. André Breton, Nadja Greece’s government has said the country is “turning a page” after Eurozone member states reached an agreement on the final elements of a plan to make its massive debt pile more manageable. The government spokesman, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, hailed “a historic decision” that meant “the Greek people…
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unexpected encounters #0 [contents]
A complete transmutation followed by a pure act such as love will necessarily be produced every time that the given facts—the coupling of two realities which apparently cannot be coupled on a plane which apparently is not appropriate to them—render conditions favorable. Max Ernst, quoted in André Breton, “The Surrealist Situation of the Object” CONTENTS…
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are, bure, boke #2
The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…
Camera lucida 