Tag: torso

The Open Shirt

Photographer Unknown, (The Open Shirt Reveal), Selfie

“In the eyes of others, a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own, he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.” 

—W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand

Roland Barthes: “An Instantaneous Reserve of History, A Tamed Richness”

 

Photographer Unknown, (Lit by Sunlight), Selfie

“The signifier of myth presents itself in an ambiguous way: it is at the same time meaning and form, full on one side and empty on the other. […] The meaning will be for the form like an instantaneous reserve of history, a tamed richness, which it is possible to call and dismiss in a sort of rapid alternation: the form must constantly be able to be rooted again in the meaning and to get there what nature it needs for its nutriment; above all, it must be able to hide there. It is this constant game of hide-and-seek between the meaning and the form which defines myth.”

― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

Despite the relationship between meaning and form, for some reason, my immediate reaction to the image is dessert- sweet; sugary; delicious; making you think, after you enjoyed it, that you really want another.