Pentimento: Why I Love the West Village from the Archives #358
Because sometimes the relentless transformation of the old to the new is mesmerizing - like an Escher print.
06-28-10
Taken from December 20, 2009 through April 8, 2012 on my Motorola MOTORAZR2 V8 flip phone.
Pentimento. "Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento, because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean by [the photos in this album]. The paint has aged now and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now." Lillian Hellman
Pentimento: Why I Love the West Village from the Archives #358
Because sometimes the relentless transformation of the old to the new is mesmerizing - like an Escher print.
06-28-10
Taken from December 20, 2009 through April 8, 2012 on my Motorola MOTORAZR2 V8 flip phone.
Pentimento. "Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento, because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean by [the photos in this album]. The paint has aged now and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now." Lillian Hellman