Vision

It's strange, such a little thing, just beyond our reach. You know what I mean.
That tiny missing element hidden in everyday life, the one we all somehow miss.

It's a skew in the way we perceive the world, something absent. We see color, hear sound, feel, taste, smell...but we've become used to them. The appreciation has died, and all these things have lost their vividness. That little thing we had as children went away.

What was it? Innocence, perhaps, but more likely something different. Softer, more subtle, the thing that painters and musicians see from time to time in those perfect and elusive moments.

All this to say that we have a unique ability to look at art and listen to music these days. You know, the internet. But in the midst of all that digitalization, something is lost in much the same way as our perceptions have become lessened with age.

In a shorter form?

A snapshot of art, the picture of a painting or the recording of a song, even the casual reading of a poem...these are all essentially as valuable to really understanding the work as watching porn is to understanding sex.

- C


"Is there anything worse than a blind man?"
"Yes. A man with sight and no vision."