Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Smallness
From Paul Strand, on moving from the US to France to experience and document the life of a pastoral French village:
"I liked the idea of being confined to a small place and then having to dig into its smallness."
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Do you think he meant beyond the camera?
Smallness is a matter of opinion, but in some way, I feel like this is more applicable to me right now than in other times in my life.
I feel like I have no roots. Dislocated. No real home. I'm constantly going back and forth from place to place...my real house, my other house, my house away from house. How many homes can you have?
And then I dream of what home could look like, and I'm not sure what to think of it.
I wonder if Strand traveled alone and who was waiting for him in France. Did he feel invited in that village?
Like he found a new home?
I think I shall continue to look into this matter. More thoughts later.
"I liked the idea of being confined to a small place and then having to dig into its smallness."
---
Do you think he meant beyond the camera?
Smallness is a matter of opinion, but in some way, I feel like this is more applicable to me right now than in other times in my life.
I feel like I have no roots. Dislocated. No real home. I'm constantly going back and forth from place to place...my real house, my other house, my house away from house. How many homes can you have?
And then I dream of what home could look like, and I'm not sure what to think of it.
I wonder if Strand traveled alone and who was waiting for him in France. Did he feel invited in that village?
Like he found a new home?
I think I shall continue to look into this matter. More thoughts later.
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