(embiggenable) • µ4/3 (cuz my iPhone was upstairs in my studio)
(embiggenable) • CANON Powershot G series camera
WHILE READING A NY TIMES INTERVIEW WITH BOB DYLAN,, re; his new album Rough and Rowdy WAYS, I encountered this quote from Dylan...
It’s the combination of them that adds up to something more than their singular parts. To go too much into detail is irrelevant. The song is like a painting, you can’t see it all at once if you’re standing too close. The individual pieces are just part of a whole.
Dylan was talking about 3 names strung together in the song, I Contain Multitudes but, from my perspective, the except could very well apply to my pictures. It could also apply to the pictures made by others that I enjoy viewing. And, actually, when I think about it, that pretty much defines, in large part, what I consider to be good art, any art.
And, by extension, that also explains why I never had any desire whatsoever to acquire a picture making device which produced bleeding edge and eye sharpness...
... think about it this way - I live in a forest. When I make a picture of/in the forest-and even though the forest is filled with trees-my pictures are not about the trees, per se. My pictures are about the forest. In other words, I do not want a viewer of my pictures of the forest to miss the forest for the trees.
As Dylan said, "To go too much into detail is irrelevant."