
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking,
what I’m looking at,
what I see and what it means.
What I want and what I fear.
— from Why I Write by Joan Didion
— from Why I Write by Joan Didion
Mountain Shadows (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Image by kenne
— Susan Sontag
Doubtful Pass In The Peloncillo Mountains — Image by kenne
— Susan Sontag
Audrey (July 2019) — Image by kenne
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Tucson Basin — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Susan Sontag
Geo-Wall (Sonoran Desert)– Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne
La Paz, Bolivia (08/17/19) — Image by kenne
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“Bee On Yellow Flower” — Image by kenne
― from Regarding the Pain of Others by
Tourist In Other People’s Reality (1974) — a caricature of kenne
In 1974 an artist friend I worked with at a publishing company drew this caricature of me trying to include all the things he felt identified with me. For a long time, it hung on the wall in my office(s). One day I used a sharpy and wrote on the glass of the framed poster, “I’m a tourist in other people’s reality,” which sums up my life. I borrowed the line from Susan Sontag’s book (On Photography), “The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”
— kenne
Pinned on the wall in the drawing is the Edmund Burke quote:
“No men can act with effect who do not act in concert;
no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence;
no men can act with confidence who are not bound together
with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.”
Richardson’s Geranium Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader,
then as a writer, it is an extension of my sympathies to
other selves, other domains, other dreams, other worlds, other territories.
— Susan Sontag
(I’m currently reading Benjamin Moser’s latest book, “Sontag — Her Life and Work.)
Bee On A Desert Chicory Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“The primitive notion of the efficacy of images
presumes that images possess the qualities of real things,
but our inclination is to attribute real things the quality of images.”
— Susan Sontag
The Photographer — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Susan Sontag
Mushroom Photo-Artistry by kenne
Perhaps nothing about a person is more potent,
and also more arbitrary, than the person’s name.
— Susan Sontag
Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterflies — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Trail Through Mountain Meadow Grass — Digital Art by kenne
— Susan Sontag