Pixiq

What is it to take a picture?

In thinking about “the object-ness of what is seen” do we also think about the symbolism or metaphor of what is at the now? What is before us in vision and sound? In texture, taste, color, and space?

Consider that we are taught to work away from what it is we love. We stay, if our will is strong enough, with the task at hand until it is done.

See.

See in simplicity.

See the light.

See the space.

See the visual relationship between distances.

See the distance between relationship.

See the air.

See the tones.

See the rhythms.

See the texture.

See the contrasts.

See the shape of movement.

See the things themselves…

the things themselves…not what they might mean later…

the things themselves…not socially…

the things themselves…not politically…

the things themselves…not psychologically…

the things themselves…not sexually.

Forget about the urge, the desire, the need to name, label, evaluate, like, hate.

Just see.

This is hard. This is hard. This is hard but it’s all that can be photographed. What you see. What you tell the camera to see. What you tell the camera to record. The camera records the light. The camera records the light emitted from the surface. The camera records the light emitted from the surface of that which is placed within it’s field of view. That is all.

Experience.

Experience the meaning of what is. Experience the meaning of what it is to take a picture.

There is a mystery in the fact of what is in itself a small feat. But it is no small feat.

There is a need to jump the gap that is between what we see and the infinite. An end that is only ever reached by continuously reaching the halfway point.

Pictures are timeless.