Some quotes from Andrei Tarkovsky, from a book of his Polaroids that a friend lent me. I wouldn’t choose to use this language but I’m interested in the thought he’s expressing.

“An image is an impression of the Truth, which God has allowed us to glimpse with our sightless eyes.”

“How does a project mature? It is obviously a most mysterious, almost imperceptible process. It carries on independently of ourselves, in the subconscious, crystallizing on the walls of the soul. It is the form of the soul that makes it unique, indeed only the soul decides the hidden ‘gestation period’ of that image which cannot be perceived by the conscious gaze.”

I just got back XX rolls of film from the summer, looked at them all at once, and now I’ll probably leave them alone for a little while. This Garry Winogrand video is relevant here, look for the part about 3/4 of the way through where he talks about his editing process.