Things Green
Yesterday I went for a walk around town in rain in search of anything green. As Tad will tell you, this batch of photos is not particularly inspiring. Which leads me to ask: Must a good photo inspire (Do people use this verb any other way--as in inspire sadness?)? Can't a good photo elicit a respectable amount of disgust? Some might say, "But who wants to feel disgusted?"
A topic for another post on another day. Until then, I leave these photos to inspire, to disgust, to nothing, which may be something too.
A topic for another post on another day. Until then, I leave these photos to inspire, to disgust, to nothing, which may be something too.
posted by Jane | 9:36 AM
1 Comments:
Jane,
I think one of the things photos can do (other than *inspire*) is help us see the world around in new ways. Your photos show many things we look at but don't *see*. & this one could argue (as I do) becomes a political act of a sort. When one is attentive (as artist and/or audience) one is more likely to be thoughtful about one's environment, in this case one's city. One is more likely to care. This attention is also a *spiritual* act. I'm not quite comfortable w/ the s. word but I use it to signify a sense of being awake and alive, of living *in* the world (& living *w/* the world) instead of passing *through* it or, worse, *using* it.
These photos also invite me to think of green in a different way. The green of a city in winter is profoundly different from the verdure of spring. To know this & to experience this is to know & experience something essential about living in this place at this time.
Argh! Lunch is nearly over.
best,
James
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