USA. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 25, 2020. I’ll never stop relearning the same lesson: a photograph doesn’t depict a thing; rather, it depicts light bouncing off of a thing. The movement of a cloud entirely changes the picture. To absorb this lesson, one
needn’t travel to Mont Sainte-Victoire like Cezanne. It’s just a matter of quieting oneself and paying attention. This is hard to do during a pandemic. It feels like we’re falling off of a cliff. But if I turn off my iPhone and simply watch the light, I can see that the world is still spinning.