"Art trains perception. It works by signaling what is important and what
can be ignored or forgotten. This is a skill we need to live, and one
that the many people I see with hands fused to their camera phones, who
indiscriminately photograph their friends, themselves, and their food,
are clearly confused about. I sympathize. Self-surveillance is not just
about vanity. It’s motivated by fear, a fear that we will not know which
things we are living through will turn out to be the ones that
mattered. So we take photos of all of them, just in case."
-from "Claire Denis," by Christine Smallwood, in n1fr Issue 1
-from "Claire Denis," by Christine Smallwood, in n1fr Issue 1
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