Waltz #2:

"The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."

-Milan Kundera

"Photography is privileged within modern culture because, unlike other systems of representation, the camera does more than just see the world; it is also touched by the world. Light bounces off an object or a body and into the camera, activating a light-sensitive emulsion and creating an image. Photographs are therefore designated as indexical signs, images produced as a consequence of being directly affected by the objects to which they refer. It is as if those objects reached out and impressed themselves on the surface of a photograph, leaving their visual imprint, as faithful to the contour of the original object as a death mask is to the deceased. Photographs can thus claim to be a kind of chemical fingerprint. It is surely this combination of the haptic and the visual, this entanglement of touch and sight, that makes photography so compelling a medium. Compelling, and strangely paradoxical. For as Barthes has suggested, 'touch is the most demystifying of all senses, unlike sight, which is the most magical.'"

-Geoffrey Batchen, Forget Me Not