Failure

DATE: 2022-05-31

Inverted panorama of Cayuga Lake, 2022

It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart.

— Brian Eno

One day, we will regret so much accuracy and artists will try to create chance accidents deliberately. Kodachrome film changes colours of its own accord, in the most unexpected way. To a certain extent, it creates. We have to accept this as if it were a painter’s interpretation and accept the surprises. It doesn’t show what I want, but what the camera and the chemical baths want. It’s another world where it’s essential to forget the one we live in.

— Jean Cocteau