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Visual art — making images

Image-making is the practice of deciding what the eye should rest on and why — a question that seems technical but is finally philosophical, because it asks what you believe is worth seeing. Every visual decision encodes an attention: toward pattern or rupture, stillness or motion, the face or the space surrounding it. To make images over time is to discover not only a style but a vision, which is something different and more fundamental than technique.

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