"To emphasize: novelistic thinking has nothing to do with the thinking of a scientist or a philosopher; I would even say it is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, that is to say fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas; it does not judge; it does not proclaim truths; it questions, it marvels, it plumbs; its form is highly diverse: metaphoric, ironic, hypothetic, hyperbolic, aphoristic, droll, provocative, fanciful; and mainly it never leaves the magic circle of its characters' lives; those lives feed and justify it."
-Milan Kundera
When I pick up a camera, I imagine I am picking up a pen. Every roll of film is a manuscript. Every frame is its own question that exists in and of itself while within the larger question that I couldn't formulate if I tried to. Curiosity motivates the novelist and photographer alike; the artist points because they wonder, they marvel, and, in doing so, hope something is revealed. "Writing with light": the phrase could not be more accurate.
The goal is the same, only the materials differ.
Friday, April 2, 2010
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