Black and white photo of curved shapes of a mobile hanging in front of a window. The background is blurred suggesting a natural setting.

To see without.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Today’s wordcloud:

rain. spring. greyscale. heavy. leaden. distant. concrete. birdsong. dripping. incense. muffled. thunder. pourover. inversion. absence. bach. nouminous. aperture. moss. 


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One response to “To see without.”

  1. The idea to pixelate a smell may be realer than imagined. Intriguingly, which is not a word one should ever use, there is an idea in physics that our universe can be modelled as a ‘holographic universe’. I’m not physicist enough to understand the papers, and barely competent enough to understand this technical overview:

    Excerpt: Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram

    But it is intriguing. The uptake:

    Could we, as William Blake memorably penned, “see the world in a grain of sand,” or is that idea no more than poetic license?

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