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At first you see nothing but a chaos of colors; then it begins to look like something, it resembles — no, it does not look like anything. All of a sudden, a point detaches itself; like the nucleus of a cell, it grows, the colors are clustered around it, heaped; rays develop, shooting forth branches and twigs like ice crystals on the window panes… and the picture reveals itself to the viewer, who has assisted at the birth of the painting.
August Strindberg
“I have worked like a devil and have traced the movements of the moon and the real appearance of the firmament on a laid-out photographic plate, independent from our misleading eye. I have done this without a camera and without a lens. [...] The photographic plate showed an area full of moons. Certainly, every spot on the photographic plate reflects a moon. The camera misleads as the eye does and the tube hoaxes the astronomers!” – August Strindberg: from a letter to physiologist Bengt Lidforss, 26 December 1893
article: https://files.iwm.at/jvfc/29_11_Steidl.pdf
August Strindberg, back of “Celestograph VIII” (1893-94), text reads “stars” in Swedish and “Stars: the Orion region” in French
View more of August Strindberg’s “Celestographs” on the National Library of Sweden’s Flickr.
Ahh, Australian sunsets.
Mountain greenery
