Mist rolls over what had been brightness,
Archives for photography
morning mist
In the early morning, a fine mist often lies over water and land.
My friend and neighbor John Johnson captured fishermen on a Michigan Lake.
Fanciful
On this blog, we don’t discuss weirdness of politics. Instead, below, find weirdness as a result of photoshopping:
Moonlight:
soft curvatures
Sand makes for soft curvatures.
Close-ups of the dunes show more… »
verisimilitude
For artwork to hold significance or persuasion, according to the ancient Greeks, it must have grounding in reality.
How about a rock and its watery reflection falling into outer space,
Making strange
We’ve often discussed the effect of perceptual structures and habits on ones experiencing of art. Recently, via my favorite general blog 3quarksdaily, I came across a nice formulation of a common theme: that we are blind to the usual. In an essay on Kafka, P. D. Smith quotes the Russian Victor Shklovsky (in “Art as Technique”, 1917) on the concept translated as defamiliarization:
… art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.
