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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
SPENT ALL OF TUESDAY AND PART OF WEDNESDAY-36 HOURS-without electricity and, consequently, without heat. All due to a freakish Spring snowstorm which dropped a foot or more of very heavy, wet snow. Throw in a bit of wind and trees, tree limbs, and power lines were down all over the place.
I had no internet access, my laptop battery was dead, my iPad was about to be dead, and I put my iPhone in the low-power mode in order to have cell service for the duration. Cuz the iPad was sinking fast, I could not read the book I was in the process of reading. So, I spent a fair amount of time sitting on the made bed-the position from which I made today’s pictures-reading…gasp… real books that were made out of paper and such.
The books were photo books with text-interviews, photo critiques, and photo theory. I came across some interesting quotes. Consider this from Robert Adams, re: the notion of what is art?…
“…Few people will venture now to try to say, even in the broadest terms, what art is, and thus there is no way to set standards for success. If everything a so-called artist makes is art, then, as some wit has observed, pencils don’t need erasers and toilets that don’t need to flush…”
In any event, I am off to New England-near Boston-today for 3 days of hockey. Will be making pictures and posts.