“Later: I took three more photos of the mountain. An act of reconciliation? No, a camera cannot reconcile one with anything. Nor can it see a real mountain. The camera does not know what it takes: it captures materials with which you reconstruct not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it – especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not normally admitted on the scene.”
(p. 285 “The Other Side of the Mountain”)
Exploring contemplative awareness in daily life, drawing from and with much discussion of the writings of Thomas Merton, aka "Father Louie".
Saturday, December 9, 2006
on photographing kanchenjunga
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Amounting to Nothing, Brother Paul
Brother Paul Quenon, Photo by Rhonda J. Miller . Sorry monk that I am, I never amounted to nothing. Somebody must have laid a curse on me...
Illusion is the see-through negligé of the mind. Very tempting.
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