I have arrived in Kathmandu. I’m staying in the Patan neighborhood. It has been a flood of sensation and experience. Probably because of the deluge, my photographs aren’t turning out. I’ve been framing images, looking back at the real thing, regarding the screen in dismay, and closing the camera without pressing the shutter.
Videos, however, have gotten closer to capturing the dichotomy between the durability of the old gods and the dynamism of street life. Here is one.1
Somehow Istanbul, where I stopped over briefly, wasn’t like this.
While I ponder the mystery, here is a 30-second video of a shrine to (I assume) Hanuman. Note the candles flickering therein. I’ve also uploaded it to the new Dissident Muse Rumble channel.
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Our current title in the Asynchronous Studio Book Club is Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism by Jed Perl. For more information, see the ASBC homepage.
The current exhibition in the Dissident Museum is David Curcio: The Point of the Needle.
I am not an experienced phone videographer. The next video will feature focus lock.
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