‘September 28th, 2005 – He Shot Me Back’ by Emiko Hime
Originally uploaded by Emiko Hime on flickr.com.
How do glances expand on what we understand “seeing” to be all about? I think Emiko’s great photo shows a bit of how glances seem to be both wise and ‘knowing looks’ and even how we often think we’ve seen ‘into’ someone while at the same time they seem to look ‘through’ us… What is being said in those sorts of popular descriptions of vision? Glances contribute to an “art of memory” of banal everyday life while gesturing to the virtuality of what will befall us in a next instant, as when people say “I saw it coming…”
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