Kate Zambreno writes that, "Roland Barthes must write an entire book to figure out why it is that this winter garden photo produces such punctum. Is it the small tender detail, he wonders, or an overall intensity? It obsesses him with, he writes, in a phrase that I love, 'a kind of vertigo, something of a 'detective anguish'."
-- Kate Zambreno, Appendix Project

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"One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852."
--Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

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Super stoked about this #cameralucida my partner just got us. It’s gonna be a learning curve, but wow! #art #MastoArt #arteveryweek #artistsofmastodon #sketchpractice #sketching #neolucida

In the paper I argue - using Barthes' Camera Lucida' as example - that traditional photographs are NOT memories.

But I developed a new process in cyanotype which DID fit the definition of a memory.

This is a metamorphogram - a combination of origami and cyanotype, which "takes a picture of itself".

It's a memory of it's experience when it was the origami form.

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