Monday 18 February 2013

NEW YORK TIMES SKETCHES // 2.

ON THE TRAIN TO DIA:BEACON
Keeping a visual record of people I meet and places I see, makes me feel as if I were a journalist and was meant to prove to some very important people that what I saw was actually true and not imagined, and who I met was human and not a ghost. If Robert Frank didn't have a camera, I wonder if he'd still capture glimpses of Americans' lives through pen and paper. I'll never find out as he's dead and as he did have a camera. If I was Robert Frank and I owned a camera though, I'd still use my brush pen and thousands of Moleskine's sketchbooks to draw what I see. It's a practice similar to a sort of automatic writing that reminds me that I exist and what I see is real. Almost 

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