Keeping the wonder world filled is easier with lists. Better still would be annotated list. Left to you to do.
I wonder about abstraction, mainly with regard to things like typing into a screen, or making camera pictures. Those things that wrap fully around themself.
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I used to ask if it was possible to make abstract photographs … that was when I was still trying to follow the direction sheets packed into the film box. Now, I know that all pictures are abstractions — some just look less like the first grade imagery that came from the Kodakery.
We oscillate; abstraction, pictures, abstracted pictures… forms with shadows, without shadows. Our edges of the dictionary change, both from poor diction, or noisy duplication. Failures of detail aren’t always abstraction; neither is failure of abstraction a …[your answer goes here]
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