Combating Literalness
When I think about the things that exist around me, I often think of them in terms of the function or service they provide me in my day-to-day life. The faucet in my bathroom provides water, which allows me to brush my teeth and shave. The plate that’s in front of me displays what I’ve ordered for lunch. Signs help me to navigate from one destination to the other. The city and the things in it help to serve a purpose in my life or they don’t—and if it’s the latter, I’m often blind to them.
Yet, when I step back and dissociate the practicality of those things, I can see them in the same way I might see a natural landscape in Joshua Tree or Yosemite. It’s then when I begin to think of how the light reveals shape, color, tonality, ...
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