overnote: 1.23.21

Photography is part physical. It used to be very much more so, requiring strength dexterity and some endurance. Digital has reduced that. Automated it.

drawing was physical, requiring a link between eye and hand. drawing forced thought into tactile form

make it into near priesthood clad in black

nearing toxic male syndrome requiring super human strength

picking music by the title 
books by title may keep you in the easy reader section

Rust Never sleeps :: invisible exam

Hockney

Hockney video

“Adam Fuss: λόγος” from Cheim Read on Vimeo.

at https://vimeo.com/139735437

  assignments fatten the horse without strengthening it  
you overthink and under achieve 

Words Follow Pictures

re-reading Ursula Le Guin, and Teju Cole: No Time to Spare, and Blind Spot

I jump between books. My method is stick scraps of paper into sections; marking phrases. I also read online; a dozen regulars, daily. Additional plunkings into the photocounter blogs, those places that are based upon the internet ‘click’ counter. 

I’m not going to direct you to them, preferring to let them grow their own way.

Having My Cake

Ursula’s Metaphor tale about cake and eat it too. The meaning she took and the one most of the world held suggested the following: Writing means adding words to the idea.

Most of us use the wrong amount. Like bad cooks; like most cooks.

Blind Spot

Teju Cole’s book is a nourishment for the right blend. He photographs, but he is a writer. A skilled crafter of phrases. They don’t get ‘in’ as far as many of Ursula’s, however, they do take me into  the process of wording a path.

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