“For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all that we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable ‘I’.”
Of all the qualities that might be attributed to an image the most important to me are grace and wit or, take together, charm. I want to be charmed, not just in the more contemporary sense of magic or rapture but in the Aristotelian sense (anagnorisis) of realization, perception, and insight.