Category: meaning

Start with the instructions

Posted on Posted in meaning, paradox lost, picture post, studio table 
the manufacturer wrote
then test them to learn how your needs and their assumptions match.

Never trust art that doesn't experiment. the studio is a place of show, not a place of tell.

trust your own work, distrust those that show-off rather than showing.

don't trust; test
press your eye to the glass

Groover on Technique

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JAN GROOVER: Technical prowess? I–I know as much as I need to know and no more. 

I’m interested in seeing the thing. 

I could tell you how a view camera works. I could probably explain it to you, but I only know that from experience. I knew nothing about it before I bought one. I had some wild concept that you could change space, which you can. But once I bought the–once I bought the view camera, everything else was just eyeballing it. 

If the thing doesn’t look the way I want it to look, I’ll try something else.