by Peter | Jan 11, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
It’s very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well…… Fortunately I wrote stuff that people didn’t like. I dodged a bullet there. And it suddenly dawned on me – that’s why I’ll never win the love of the American public. They want...
by Peter | Aug 22, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
Although photography generates works that can be called art – it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure – photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made....
by Peter | Aug 22, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
The reason that a Mobius strip gives one a strange sensation is that, conceptually, the distinction between “front and back” which ought to be clear has become ambiguous and vague; this phenomenon, however, can also occur with other dualities such as “inside and...
by Peter | May 28, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled from the real, like a footprint or a death mask. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from...
by Peter | May 28, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
My pictures are like maps, which perhaps only I can understand. Therefore, in following my maps there are some travellers who get lost. There are those who become angry when they discover they have been fooled; but there are also those who enter into the maze of my...
by Peter | May 28, 2018 | borrowed thoughts
Imagination (which is about impossibility) and reality aren’t opposites, but complement each other. One might say that reality and imagination differ from each other in the same way that the audience at a play is set apart from the actors. It’s where the two meet that...
