"If we imagine the eyes as navigational devices, we do so in order not to come to terms with what seeing really is. Seeing is like hunting and like dreaming, and even like falling in love. It is entangled in the passions - jealousy, violence, possessiveness; and it is soaked in affect - in pleasure and displeasure, and in pain. Ultimately, seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer. Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism."-James Elkins, "The Object Stares Back"
Today I saw a movie. Today I watched myself hurt a friend. Today I took photos of empty streets and manikins for my assignment on Community. Today I wanted to see my parents, but instead I saw Jesus. A man walked by and told me that he was flying, because he was not on the cross and his arms were outstretched. He was strung up next to some animal bones on a fence, caught by a wire around his waist.
I took pictures of him, and wondered if he could fly away.
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You also saw the raindrops on coral-flowers in space, I see.
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