poetry | photography | philosophy
Memory is the hallucination; Memory is untruth. Whatever. Memory is always, always! symbolic. If you remember it, then it did not happen. Never tell someone that s/he is following a red herring inside the courts of law. Bad joke. You remember picking an orange. The orange is a symbol. And so is the memory itself.…
Read More
Paintings are atemporal; a painting can be painted at any time. History is the history of the photograph. History, then, is the history of colour. Following Runge, white and black are to be treated as colours and not as transparencies. Colour is colourful but must still appear to appear as such. Following Heraclitus very loosely,…
Read More
Perception utters, “It must be because it is what it is!” Memory replies, “It must be because it was what it was, and what was was, hence is.” Put the onus on memory, and memory cannot see. Put the onus on perception, and perception cannot know. Perception utters, “It is so because what is cannot…
Read More
A painting can look painted. A painting can look like a photograph. A photograph can look like a painting. A photograph can clearly look photographed. A painting can be intentionally made to look painted. A painting can be intentionally made to look like a photograph. A photograph can be intentionally made to look like a…
Read More