fortuitous encounters of words and sights
Odds and Lens turns more "odds" than "lens" these days - I've been significantly swept away, both from my main work and from the "divertissement" I had devised for myself here, by a new project which involves a great deal of archival hunting and interpretation work that are slightly different from those I was acquainted... Continue Reading →
par le Comité de sauvetage des instants perdus
Two very different archival findings came together in dialogue. The first is an interwar family photo found at the flee market, which caught my eye because of a little girl's glowing expression of joy. She is sitting, together with a sister (most probably) and older family members in the barn, close to a cute choir... Continue Reading →
Mobile, modern, oriented toward the street and focused on the moment, the phone camera longs for domestic, classic and slow-descending sunsets.
Quelques instants de contemplation devant une gravure botanique sur les volets battants d'une maison auvergnate. © Adina Ruiu 2015
One of the pleasures I had walking in Montreal was to admire the lovely games the Northern sun liked to play on brick buildings, and the mysterious manmade mechanisms for which I had to find a purpose. Like what I chose to see as a memory tube in the second picture here, a spatiotemporal channel... Continue Reading →
Câteva imagini captate aproape pe furiș, între două drumuri marcate de griji și sub semnul urgenței, și poate de aceea mai aproape de ceea ce reprezintă pentru mine esența orașului natal. A few images, captured on the run, between two emergency trips, and for that reason maybe closer to what represents for me the essence... Continue Reading →
While rummaging through piles of old postcards, curiosity was met not only by the usual bits of disparate stories, past-concentrates in which vintage visuals take over the incomplete and often commonplace texts characteristic of the genre. A prolonged moment of grace kept bringing back, in the rapid succession of handwritings, a signature and the name... Continue Reading →
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