Less than an hour? Quantum Physics??? Stendhal Syndrom!!!
In my last post I wrote I have made the painting in less than an hour... For me it was LESS THAN AN HOUR! Everything was so smooth, and in a blink the painting was there. But time makes us tricks many times... maybe many hours have passed... but I didn't feel them, time is strange regarding paintings and art. Quantum Physics???
I remember when I was a teenager and I saw for the very first time Michelangelo's David in Florence, I was there for hours, standing there, paralized by emotion...for me I was there only a few minutes, but later I knew I was not, because my mother was yelling at me that she was already in the hotel and when she noticed I wasn't with my friends there she had to pick up a taxi back to the David and I was still there after so many hours!
That was the first time I suffered from the Stendhal Syndrom...
Therefore I wanted to post now this image. It is an image I love. It is from Ponte Buriano and was made by an Italian photographer: R. Tosato and his pinhole. Here time tricks us again. In order to make the picture done the pinhole box was a lot of time there, wide open... trying to catch the time... Buses and cars passed through the bridge, but the camera didn't catch them, it catched only the essential, in this case the essential was the bridge :)
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Anyway, when I think of time, I remember that Wenders' wonderful movie (I can't remember its name right now, but it is about angels), where an evil man is in fact THE time... That is why a minut is quite different than a moment and a second different than an instant... it depends on you and on the situation!
If we watch carefully at the large format of that picture we could say that time is "splitted" on paper. That pic was quite "fast" and was done in 1 min 45 sec.
(others pics took half hour or more)
exemplo:
1)on 2^ and 3^ arch you can see a narrow white line: cars... several cars passing...
2)threes on background... they are not sharp : it is due to 1 minute of wind on leaves
3) and at the end "lines on the water": they are the trip of leaves on the water during that time to take the pic. So could image that we generally have a view of world around us like a sum of in instants... we could think (if we want) that they are not a fluid... (cinema illusion teach it us)
well, that pic is a view of an instant "long more than one minute" (almost 2).
things didn't disapperas... they simply chage their apparence.
i ask just a think: could you erase "very talented" (if it is possible) ...
thank you a lot.
r
You have mentioned here one of my beloved films: Wim Wenders' In weiter Ferne so Nah!
and one of my beloved books:
St Exupery's Little Prince :))))
R!
Your wish is my command :) Thanks for that wonderful photo.