Sonny's Blues

"Keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."

- James Baldwin

Every photograph is a certificate of presence. - Barthes

"The man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air ... more terrible because it has no words and triumphant too, for that same same reason. " James Baldwin

"Beauty in imperfection ... the internal world meets the outside world and takes shape. When my desire takes some kind of shape, it becomes a photograph. Photos: out of focus, rough, streaky, warped ... (person's daily perceptions) ... photograph the mysterious and unknown." Daido Moriyama

a short story

Once upon a time there was a king.

The king wanted a painting. He'd heard about a famous painter in a distant village. "I don't care how much it costs," said the king. He sent a messenger to the painter.

"My king wants a painting," said the messenger. "Ok," said the painter, "give me two million gold coins and come back later." The messenger paid.

The messanger came back a year later. "It's not finished yet," said the painter. "Come back later."

Ten years passed.

The messenger returned. "Where is the painting for the king?"

The painter grabbed a canvas and painted a painting. "Here, give this to the king."

"What, you just made it!" said the messenger.

"Yes," said the painter, "but I've been thinking about it for ten years."