Memory and Understanding

“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”
--Alain de Botton

"3:42 p.m., 2010" | Photo by Alexander Harding

“The path isn't a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
--Barry H. Gillespie

BEAUTY: Photography--Alexander Harding

So beautiful, lonely, lyrical...the photographic series "Visible Light" by Alexander Harding brings me a certain sense of nostalgia as well. It reminds me of the gorgeous center section of Viriginia Woolf's novel TO THE LIGHTHOUSE in which we follow the story through a family summer house over a decade, watching time pass... light comes and goes, dust accumulates, and the echoes of lives fade away.

Top to bottom: 9:24AM 2010; 11:23AM 2010; 1:40PM 2010; 3:42PM 2010; 8:28AM 2010; 9:06AM 2010

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