A happy accident

Mon 09 May 2005

Frozen film and double exposure leads to a happy accident for Raul.

Serendipity is an important component of any photograph and indeed for all art. Bateson (more about him in a future post, I promise) writes that it is:

relavant to look at any work of art with the question: What components of this message material had what orders of unconsciousness (or consciousness) for the artist? … Art becomes … an exercise in communicating about the species of unconsciousness. — Gregory Bateson, Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art
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