Journal

One entry per encounter with an art form. Written for myself first — published in case someone else is learning to look too.

Painting

Learning to look

Standing in front of a painting for ten full minutes, on purpose. It was harder — and stranger — than I expected.

Photography

Technique is not the point (but it's not nothing)

A perfectly sharp, perfectly exposed photograph can be perfectly empty. So what is the rest?

Music

First notes on listening

What happens if I listen to one piece the way I stood in front of one painting?