24 November

If you create a ‘likeness’ in an image - it ‘looks like’ what it’s an image of - how does that work? Habitually we say it creates a representation of the thing. That doesn’t actually explain anything, it’s just a word. An image re-presents the person or thing. There’s something in every object and person that is detachable from them, that is identifiably them. It’s eternal, it’ll last as long as the image lasts. Some people call it a soul. Whatever you call it, it’s a miracle, which I don’t think we notice.