First Reflections (Arles '19)
First Reflections (Exhibition in Arles '19)
Why are you growin' up so fast
My boy?
(...)
Oh, you'd better take your time
My boy.
I thought we had just begun.
Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?
- Neil Young -
Having a baby allows you to take the time to really look at things. What is the baby staring at for ages with such great fascination? A play of light, of colors? The whole is broken down into single pieces, beautiful fragments – a sense for detail that we have lost. But have we? Or are those memories of our first reflections still inside us? Using a baby‘s perspective means taking aside patterns and common ideas of things and look at them anew. To reveal details that maybe allow us to see the whole in a new light.
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