Lady Vervaine
For Roid Week 2009, No.10
Polaroid SX70. Polaroid ATZ.
OK, so as if his father's poem wasn't enough, the Tarkvosky Polaroids book then goes on to deliver an extraordinary statement from the man himself - one that seemed exceptionally relevant to what we're doing here in Roid Week, so I'll be quoting it as we count down to the end of this amazing five days....
"An artistic image is one that ensures its own development. This image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism. It is a symbol of actual life, as opposed to life itself...."
- from 'Time Within Time'
by Andrei Tarkovsky
For Roid Week 2009, No.10
Polaroid SX70. Polaroid ATZ.
OK, so as if his father's poem wasn't enough, the Tarkvosky Polaroids book then goes on to deliver an extraordinary statement from the man himself - one that seemed exceptionally relevant to what we're doing here in Roid Week, so I'll be quoting it as we count down to the end of this amazing five days....
"An artistic image is one that ensures its own development. This image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism. It is a symbol of actual life, as opposed to life itself...."
- from 'Time Within Time'
by Andrei Tarkovsky