THE VISIBLE COMPENDIUM
LAWRENCE JORDAN • 16m
An assortment of unnamed meanings. Fragments of light. Photography, to Jordan, is not about things but about light. Light is our primary reality when we are at the movies: light which suggests things, the secondary reality, a construct by the mind. THE VISIBLE COMPENDIUM attempts to engage the mind (and particularly what is unknown in the mind) rather than what has been seen and known a thousand-times-over.
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