Swimming holes. Sazeracs. Summertime in perpetuity. Scratchy old records. Living room dance parties. Historical methodology. Pie.
In surfaces, perfection is less interesting. For instance, a page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. Because the tea stains add a bit of history. It’s a historical attitude. After all, texts of ancient Greeks come to us in wreckage and I admire that, the combination of layers of time that you have when looking at a papyrus that was produced in the third century BC and then copied and then wrapped around a mummy for a couple hundred years and then discovered and put in a museum and pieced together by nine different gentlemen and put back in the museum and brought out again and photographed and put in a book. All those layers add up to more and more life. You can approximate that in your own life. Stains on clothing.
IN 1902, SADAKICHI HARTMANN ATTEMPTED TO TRANSPORT A THEATER FULL OF PEOPLE ACROSS A VAST OCEAN USING ONLY PERFUME AND AN ELECTRIC FAN.
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Tools of the trade for a Street Dentist in Jodhpur, India.
Photo credit: Copyright 2001, Martin Wierzbicki
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How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture, Ad Reinhardt, January 1947
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Jusepe de Ribera, Studies of Ears, 1622