hotography possesses a purity that undeniably affirms the presence of things that once existed there.
Painting cannot be created while simultaneously observing its subject; inevitably, the artist’s imagination intervenes, allowing it to exist only within the realm of imagination.
However, through the act of painting, the distorted yet ever-transforming truth of memory begins to acquire meaning.
I develop the once-seen landscapes imprinted on the sensitive plate of my own perception.
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the essence of the image is to be altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more inaccessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being; without signification, yet summoning up the depth of any possible meaning; unrevealed yet manifest, having that absence-as-presence which constitutes the lure and the fascination of the Sirens
Maurice Blanchot “The Book to Come”