I sometimes want to take an empty picture frame with me on a walk. You look at a bed of fallen pine cones, some random weeds, pine needles, it looks interesting, then you raise your frame and look at it through that; mysteriously you see it more clearly, the illusion of it being framed like a work of art makes it one.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve done this in remote places but won\u2019t here, where I live\u2013my neighbors already think I\u2019m eccentric. (They’re not wrong, but one doesn’t like to frighten them.)<\/p>\n
At this point, having used various methods to get the effect, I can actually look at anything\u2013and that includes trash in the gutter\u2013as if it were a \u201cphoto realistic\u201d painting, even without the frame, and that makes me see it more fully\u2026but the frame is a short cut\u2026<\/p>\n
The trash in the gutter *can* look like a work of art\u2026if an artist paints it. All this also makes me think of the movie American Beauty<\/em> where he shows a film (within the film) of an empty trash bag blowing about on a street; it looks sort of like an invertebrate life form. He talks about how beautiful it is, and, in the context of his film, it IS beautiful.<\/p>\n There are lots of ways, I find, to see more than I would normally see\u2026sensing my body, consciously, while looking at something makes me see that something more than if I don\u2019t do that. Compositional values and dimensionality especially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sometimes want to take an empty picture frame with me on a walk. You look at a bed of fallen pine cones, some random weeds, pine needles, it looks interesting, then you raise your frame and look at it through that; mysteriously you see it more clearly, the illusion of it being framed like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n