Tezos

Where the Day Surrenders

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Description

Red sky at evening, sailor's delight. The saying appears in the Bible and Shakespeare both, which is interesting because it means people have been reading the sky for weather and for meaning at the same time, for a very long time. Practical knowledge and symbolic thinking mixed together, maybe they were never really separate. Endings get treated strangely in most cultures. Japanese philosophy finds peace in impermanence, the beauty of things precisely because they do not last. Western thinking tends to fight against it more, building monuments and writing names on things. But the moment when day turns into night seems to bypass all that, I guess because it happens every single time whether anyone wants it to or not. A tanker on the horizon adds something to this. Industry and nature, commerce moving through beauty, or maybe moving through indifference. The ship has somewhere to be. The sky does not care about schedules. Turner painted sunsets obsessively, Monet too. Something about trying to fix what cannot be fixed, making permanent what lasts only minutes. Photography does the same thing actually, just faster. The light shifts and then it is gone and what remains is the record of having been there when it happened, which is maybe enough or maybe not quite the same thing at all. Photography © 2009, Corina Daniela Obertas All Rights Reserved

Traits

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sunset

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sea

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horizon