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OVER THE PAST COUPLE DAYS THE COLOR red seems to be following me around. Or, is it just the opposite - I’m following it around?
However, point in fact, the matter is as simple as Lee Friedlander stated (modified by me), re: Joel Cohen’s comment about his pictures:
“He says all kinds of nice things that I don’t recognize. Splitting Red, splintering Red. Evidently my pictures are that way, but I didn’t think, ‘I want to take a splintering red picture.’ If you’ve done the same thing for 60 55 years, you don’t think of motive very much. I just walk and see something interesting that pricks my eye and sensibilities.”
iMo, walking-aka: being there-and seeing-with mind and eyes wide open-are the prime ingredients for making good pictures.
Forget motive and simply spontaneously react-exploiting the medium’s unique-amongst-the visual-arts characteristic, aka: its intrinsic relationship with and as a cohort of the real-to something visually interesting that pricks your eye and sensibilities. In doing so, a personal vision, aka: how you see, will emerge seemingly unbidden.
Or, in other words, don'‘t think about it. Just do it. As Joel Cohen put it:
“…the obligation of the person who makes the work is to make the work, and the obligation of the people who view the work is to think about it.”