Nicolas Genette
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I am taking the extraordinary step of copying from your website your introduction. I hope this helps folk relate to you photography here. My kind wishes, Asher
Others five : http://www.nicolasgenette.com/photos/Divergence_us.php
Happy end of the year !!
"Sometimes there are moments in life when we no longer know whether we want to live or to die. Live when the will to do so isn’t there anymore? Or die, and lose – however small the risk – something yet to come that would make life worth living? If we’re still capable of thinking, there's only one solution, and that is to live!
By dying we remove any possibility of choice, while by living we retain the element of choice, the power to put off dying until an even more awful tomorrow. For all that, to live without wanting to is not…livable. In a survival reflex, brain and body then agree to maintain activity, and try to fill the emptiness.
No longer interested by the world around us, we find ourselves fascinated by the small things few people notice, trying to find we don’t know what, for as long as the sparl to live is maintained. Every single spark is picked up, scrutinised, studied, felt, and lived! But once each spark has been absorbed, the way forward dissipates into an emptiness requiring constant feeding. Nothing is too complex not to be tackled. From quantum mechanics to the profoundest subjectivism, spark upon spark, every tiny dose of life will little by little fan the flame, so that in time the memory of a path followed simply to have choice fades...
We then become aware that the most beautiful thing given us to live is life itself, this great mystery, at the dawn of art and science. To no longer feel even a tiny spark of this gigantic unknown, of this whole, is not choice, it's death!"
Nine new photographies in Divergence collection. The square format invites himself in this collection, for the last photographs of the year !By dying we remove any possibility of choice, while by living we retain the element of choice, the power to put off dying until an even more awful tomorrow. For all that, to live without wanting to is not…livable. In a survival reflex, brain and body then agree to maintain activity, and try to fill the emptiness.
No longer interested by the world around us, we find ourselves fascinated by the small things few people notice, trying to find we don’t know what, for as long as the sparl to live is maintained. Every single spark is picked up, scrutinised, studied, felt, and lived! But once each spark has been absorbed, the way forward dissipates into an emptiness requiring constant feeding. Nothing is too complex not to be tackled. From quantum mechanics to the profoundest subjectivism, spark upon spark, every tiny dose of life will little by little fan the flame, so that in time the memory of a path followed simply to have choice fades...
We then become aware that the most beautiful thing given us to live is life itself, this great mystery, at the dawn of art and science. To no longer feel even a tiny spark of this gigantic unknown, of this whole, is not choice, it's death!"
Others five : http://www.nicolasgenette.com/photos/Divergence_us.php
Happy end of the year !!
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