What else, I should like to know, have art and artists ever done except to perceive the individual thing, isolate the object out of the welter of phenomena, elevate it, intensify it, inspire it and give it meaning?” —Thomas Mann
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The Individual Thing
Hmmmm….. verrrrrry eeeeenteresting!!
Regarding the visual arts, certainly way true in so many instances, when one realizes that the “individual thing” can in fact be the relationship between things.
Except that in this shot, my eyes are drawn by three individual “subjects”: the pole inside the trunk; the trunk surrounding the pole; the pretty BMW on the right parked, somewhat incongruously, beside a wall that suggests decay.
But why should that matter? If anything, it all adds mystery to the whole, a whole that asks a lot of questions.
Rob