Sunday, February 14, 2021

Spoiler alert

I've always enjoyed the work of Italian photographer Silvio Wolf. Perhaps his most famous photographs are the imaginary landscapes that originate from discarded film leaders. Knowing the exact origin was a bit of a spoiler for me when I first experienced the work, but I'm over it at this stage. In general, I'm not really drawn to the poetry of T. S. Eliot, but the quote below comes from Wolf's webpage, and I think it is germane.

We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the very first time.
                --T.S. Eliot, from Little Gidding, in Four Quartets, 1943.