They say “the camera never lies” although I think it is much
more along the lines of. What – er, what do I think? A bit hard to nail but
something along the lines of our brains have got very good at decoding
photographs and particularly photographic images on screens. You can’t – for
instance photograph the inside of a mask so that people without schizophrenia
can see it’s the inside of a mask. Why? Our minds decode faces in a certain
way.
You see, unless you are a schizophrenic – apparently, what
you brain tells you is there and not what is actually there, although you brain
knows or perhaps even when your brain knows that it’s wrong.
From where I was sitting sketching in Chocolate Café in
Canterbury the mask on the window, dominates the view in a photograph.
However actually sitting at the table painting, what you actually
see depends on where you are looking, and yet there is potential – in doing
this – to make something which is what? An optical illusion, an artistic error,
I don’t know really.
Anyway a sketch of Canterbury that I will endeavour to finish
off, if I get the chance.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.