The polarity between the sensational and the mundane is also the dichotomy between the sensational and the sensory in which the latter is left unmarked, unvoiced and unattended to, as a banal element of the everyday.

-Nadia Seremetakis

Saturday, May 9

the ambiguous alternative

"Ambiguity may be the clue: there is the material, and there I am intruding my private intent. I know the imminence of the world and experience with full sensuality; at the same time I am involved with the projection of myself as idea. Strong tensions are inevitable, pleasurable and disturbing. Is not the aesthetic optimum order with the tensions continuing?”

 

                      - Aaron Siskind

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