Words and images
I wonder if as a society we are getting obsessed by images. A drawing or a painting used to be the way we represented something in an image. Even the smallest sketch took skill and a painting might be the work of months or even years. Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa took him nearly fifteen years to complete. Then came photography but even when photography had been going for a hundred years or more and we had left behind the period when the sitter had to remain entirely still for minutes in front of the camera it was still the case until digital photography that a photograph required waiting: the film had to be completed, sent away in a sealed envelope and the prints returned a few days later. Only then could you see that the whole film contained only half a dozen pictures that you wanted to keep with most of the prints being slightly out of focus, containing a pink finger over a bit of the lens, or so dark and atmospheric that it was hard to tell why they had...