Selfie
"...the soul is not a soul,/ Has no secret, is small, and it fits/ Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention."
- John Ashbery, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
- Mary Oliver
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
- Susan Sontag, On Photography
TITLE - "Selfie"
WHERE - Hub cap, truck rental center, El Cajon, California (2016)