tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post8750864506283151228..comments2023-05-14T02:13:31.056-07:00Comments on ein klage-himmel: art is fidelity to failure (as beckett says, and holub repeats here)James Owenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post-4400730383733447422014-06-05T09:52:31.903-07:002014-06-05T09:52:31.903-07:00i have been struggling with this for some time as ...i have been struggling with this for some time as miroslav holub is not saying any one thing but is saying everything here, but he is saying all of those things which reside in the one thing which defies being spoken succinctly, and so what he says expands from nothing to everything and back to nothing again. except this. this he says plainly and importantly:<i> risk. and failure. distance. opportunity. life.</i><br /><br />how easily this about the poem might apply to the photograph. at maria's<i> fourteenth</i> i recently saw that she quoted garry winogrand, "Great photography is always on the edge of failure."<br /><br />what else has value? how might anything have any worth if success is definite?<br /><br />and so your choice of photographs, the rare moment of the crow within the frame, jetting recklessly elsewhere, is perfect.<br /><br />xo<br />erinerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636371927224076866noreply@blogger.com