first a room, then a box, then a way of seeing

Metallic Silver Reduced by Action of Light

Looking more slowly and always feelingly. I've started to archive posts from other platforms. Writing my book, I want to share some of its cosmology, reveal its inspirations, and share essays on topics as I go along. Libraries are heaven. And so are the Internet Archives. The miracles

A Psychic Documentary

I often think of the timeless movie of only black and white photographs and a narrator. La Jette, by Chris Marker (1962), which would later be fairly licensed to Terry Gilliam and he would make 12 Monkeys. In La Jette, the frozen but succeeding images step out of black and