Season One · Salt
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In 1995 I walked into the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and stood inside another person’s certainty for an hour. On shock, precision, and the discovery that attention is itself a position in the world.
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A scent stopped me the other day. Sweet, then sharp, and I am already gone. Not a photograph, not a story I’ve told before. A room I had not thought about in decades, arriving whole and unasked for, and gone again before I could hold it.
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Paul Thomas Anderson – Characters Who Carry the Room
Anderson films the making rather than the made thing — scissors on silk, thread pulled through fabric. What follows is an argument about attention, and…
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The Blue That Cannot Be Owned
Klein spent a short life trying to hold a colour, and in 1960 he registered the formula for it. Under French law you cannot own…
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Patti Smith: The Patience of the Chelsea Hotel
Before the photograph and before the record, there were years in a bookstore, in museums, in a room with a single hot plate. Horses arrived…
