The Archivist

17 November

17 November · 08:10 UTC

You can’t look at this for any length of time and still think images just ‘represent’ things. (Click to see it in greater detail.) That paint is alive, a being of sensation. A sensation doesn’t belong to the person or object, it’s their taking part in an eternal world. Why you can actually feel Rembrandt by looking at this, hundreds of years after his death. Paint is just one ‘body’ of sensation. Stone is another. Music another.

Nick Dee added a new photo.
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