la terre sous mes pieds
In an unfinished manuscript, James Joyce referred to an artist as one who is “standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams.” He could have been writing about this surreal, minimalist image
In this photograph we are both the viewer and the viewed. Those pale bare feet become our bare feet. We are literally standing in the position of Joyce’s mediator, equipoised between art and life, between reality and imagination. The titled earth may be solidly underfoot, but our minds are unfettered…not by gravity, nor time, nor space, nor any petty Einsteinian constraint. Our feet are firmly planted, but our imagination is effortlessly wafted away by the rising heat of a simple cup of tea.
Joyce, I think, would have enjoyed this photograph.
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